The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Tuesday confirmed that the recently reopened Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC) is producing petrol, diesel, kerosene, and other products.

Its president, Comrade Festus Osifo made this known at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja.

Asked to confirm the arguments about whether the facility is producing or not to rest, he said the association being part of the steering committee knows every beat of progress in the rehabilitation process.

He urged people to be interested in the product and not in the process of turning out the materials from the plant.

Osifo explained the ongoing refining process in the facility and stressed “So when they blend this, it gives us PMS. But what we should be interested in, as material, is that does Port Harcourt refinery produces AGO today. The answer is yes.

Does Port Harcourt Refinery produce DPK today? The answer is yes.

Does Port Harcourt Refinery produce PMS today? The answer is yes.

“So the processes are not much of our concern. The man on the street does not understand what CTU is.

“The man of the street does not understand what is classified. What the man of the street understands is PMS, kerosene, and diesel. Are we getting these from Port Harcourt? The answer is yes.”

Osifo, who sought the completion of the rehabilitation of the refineries called for their privatization, insisting on the adoption of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG).

He said the products’ prices are yet to clash because of high exchange rates.

He raised the alarm over the high rate of expatriate quota in the oil and gas industry, including Indorama and the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

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