Comrade Folorunso Oginni, Lagos Zonal Chairman of Petroleum and
Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) wants the
Federal Government to obtain World Bank loans for building more
refineries in each geo-political zone of the country.
Oginni, who spoke at a media parley with newsmen on why government’s
reversal of sale of refineries would be an opportunity to build more,
taking cognisance of the fact that the four refineries, if they produced
at the main installed capacity will produce 18.2million liters on daily
basis, compared to the consuming over 38 million liters daily in
Nigeria called for more refineries to be built in Nigeria.
He “advised government to take loans from World Bank to build more
refineries, may be one in each geo-political zone of the country because
current refineries were built as far back as 1979. We have four
refineries. If they produced at the main installed capacity they will
produce 18.2 million liters on daily basis and we are consuming over 38
million liters daily in Nigeria.
“This means that even if these refineries produced at 100percent
installed capacity, we will have a very big gap between 18million and
38million which is 20million gaps on daily basis.
“Unfortunately the refineries are not producing at installed capacities because they are obsolete”, he further said.
The labour leader claimed that the workers of the NNPC in most cases,
are involved in fabricating equipment on daily basis to produce at
current level, adding that “if Nigeria is growing in population, and if
we are getting money from export of crude of oil on daily basis, what
stops us from doubling the number of refineries we had since 1979 today?
“If a country like Singapore can have about 60 refineries, without
crude oil. The country import the crude oil, refine it, sale and make
profit.
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