{"id":21304,"date":"2024-12-21T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21304"},"modified":"2024-12-21T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:40:30","slug":"port-harcourt-refinery-fully-operational-nnpc-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21304","title":{"rendered":"Port Harcourt Refinery Fully Operational, NNPC Clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/nnpcgroup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited<\/a> (NNPC Ltd.) has dismissed recent media reports claiming that the Old Port Harcourt Refinery has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In a statement issued by Olufemi O. Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of <a href=\"https:\/\/nnpcgroup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NNPC<\/a> Ltd., the company reaffirmed that the refinery remains fully operational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to the statement, the refinery, which was re-streamed two months ago, has continued to function efficiently. The operational status was recently verified by a team of former Group Managing Directors of NNPC during an inspection visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cPreparation for the day\u2019s loading operation is currently ongoing,\u201d Soneye noted, emphasizing that the reports of a shutdown are baseless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He described such claims as \u201cfigments of the imagination of those who want to create artificial scarcity and rip-off Nigerians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">NNPC urged the public to disregard the false reports and assured Nigerians of its commitment to maintaining steady refinery operations to meet the nation\u2019s energy needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This clarification comes amid heightened concerns about fuel supply and market stability, with NNPC calling on stakeholders to refrain from actions that could disrupt the petroleum distribution chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has dismissed recent media reports claiming that the Old Port Harcourt Refinery has been shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[339,9731,9598],"class_list":["post-21304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nnpc","tag-operational","tag-port-harcourt-refinery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21308,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304\/revisions\/21308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}