The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has implored the Federal Government to increase the nation’s local refining capacity and remove all observed encumbrances to full rehabilitation of all the four refineries.
The Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, had in his new year statement said successive administrations in Nigeria didn’t do Turn Around Maintenance (TAM)on the four refineries.
Arising from the Association’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State recently, the oil workers advised the government to initiate a more workable and sustainable intervention by incorporating more investors into local refining.
The association in a statement issued at the end of the meeting frowned at the conflicting pronouncements over inadequate funding and crude supply as well as staff attrition challenges which are currently hindering smooth operations of the refineries and as a way out advocated for an increase in crude supply, raising of the funding levels and the employment of more qualified manpower. Read more