Nigerian Society Of Chemical Engineers Gives Port Harcourt Refinery Clean Bill Of Health

-says it's working effectively, and, effectively; very refinery does blending every day

The highest body of chemical engineers in the country, the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, has given the Port Harcourt Refinery a clean bill of health, declaring that the plant is running, contrary to claims made by critics about the facility.

National President of the Association, Mr Tony Ogbuigwe, who said this in an interview, declared that chemical engineers who are on the ground have confirmed that the installation is back in operations after over 20 years.

Stating that refining and refinery operations are science, Ogbuigwe, who added that every refinery does blending every day, declared that the process has no room for emotion or sensation.

He said: "The truth of the matter is that the Area 5 of the Port Harcourt Refinery is running and indeed running. The refinery has two parts; there is the old refinery and the new refinery.

"The old refinery is the one that has been brought back into operation and we can confirm that it is running. We have made contact with our professional colleagues - the chemical engineers who are on the ground, and they have confirmed that the refinery is indeed running.

"The products are being produced from the old refinery and those products are being blended to give the PMS that we consume in our cars and diesel oil, which we consume in trucks, and which some of us use in our generators. Kerosene is also being produced. That is the truth.

"In the refinery, things have to be brought up in stages and that is the same thing that is being done in Dangote Refinery. Crude oil comes into a refinery and goes into what is called the Crude Distillation Unit. There is the distillation in the colon and products come out from there at various levels.

"On the top, there is gas, which gives us the cooking gas. At the next level down, there is straight-run gasoline. There is the heavy-Naphtha level and then kerosene, diesel and fuel oil, which is from the bottom of the colon. These are the straight products that come from the colon but they go for further processing in different parts of the refinery.

"The heavy Naphtha goes into the Catalytic Reforming Unit, where it is then reformed into high octane stock. This is because the light Naphtha or straight-run gasoline, as some call it, is low octane and not meeting up with the specification of 1991, which is the standard for Petrol Motor Spirit PMS.

"So, what has happened is that the Area 5 was commissioned and the main colon, which is the Crude Distillation Unit, has been commissioned and running and producing these products.
However, the heavy Naphtha, which should go into the catalytic Reforming Unit, which is the next unit that would be brought on stream, is not yet on stream.

"Some people have been making statement in the media about a product called crack C5 coming from Eleme Petrochemicals and that is what they have been loading. The truth is that the Area 5, otherwise called the Old Port Harcourt Refinery, is producing light naphtha or straight-run gasoline. It is producing heavy naphtha. It is producing kerosene. It is producing light gas-oil, which goes out as diesel and it is also producing fuel oil. The light naphtha is blended with Crack C5 which is being obtained from Eleme Petrochemicals. And that is what is giving you your PMS.

"I am surprised people are saying loading has not taken place. Loading has actually taken place and trucks have been loaded and those trucks have gone out to go and supply the public.

"It is not PMS that is brought into the refinery but Crack C5, which is a high research octane, a product from the Eleme Petrochemical processes. It is high octane stock, which is then blended with the light naphtha, which is lower octane stock, to give you the 1991 specification for PMS.

"Every refinery does blending every day. In the refinery, we don't produce the products you see outside there. We produce LPG, Light Naphtha, Heavy Naphtha, Kerosene, Light Gas Oil, Heavy.
Gas Oil, Atmospheric Residue. These things go into the storage camp in every refinery. Then, from those storage tanks, you then start blending for the public because all these things are not what the public consumes. The public consume PMS, which is a blend of light naphtha with high octane product like Crack C5. Every refinery does this.

"As far as I know, the refinery is running at about 60 to 70 per cent capacity right now but ramping up towards 90 per cent. Hopefully, when they ramp up to 90 per cent, there will be more products coming out. What I will really be looking forward to is the Catalytic Reforming Unit to be brought into operation as well, so that the Area 5 refinery can fully optimise the crude oil it is processing."

https://newsdiaryonline.com/nigerian-engineers-confirm-ph-refinerys-operational-status-contradicting-critics-claims-3/

Lol if it is working do you need clean bill of health to try and convince anyone it’s working?

aariwa:
Lol if it is working do you need clean bill of health to try and convince anyone it’s working?

I wonder

Wailers and Bitter Obidients can keep consoling themselves with FAKE NEWS from hungry bloggers. Good news is a poison to their souls.


After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

Just like CNG for cars, I'll only take comedians and skit makers seriously on anything concerning that Ph refinery

Chemical engineers that cannot differentiate different types of chemicals and their composition dey give clean bill of health

RZArecta:
Just like CNG for cars, I'll only take comedians and skit makers seriously on anything concerning that Ph refinery

This information is not for bitter people, it's for enlightenment of those who have been deceived by the merchants of FAKE NEWS.

nedu666:
Chemical engineers that cannot differentiate different types of chemicals and their composition dey give clean bill of health

This is the highest body of chemical engineers in Nigeria. Who else can give a clean bill of health?. is it an ignorant 2by2 trader that i should believe?

PressMyButton:

This is the highest body of chemical engineers in Nigeria. Who else can give a clean bill of health?. is it an ignorant 2by2 trader that i should believe?

Highest body you say. Can they build a petrol chemical plant from design, construction and operation. Its not by holding certificate and forming useless bodies

Health keh?!

Wetin carry am go hospital

nedu666:



Highest body you say. Can they build a petrol chemical plant from design, construction and operation. Its not by holding certificate and forming useless bodies

No, they can't, that's why the local content development Act was meant for 2by2 traders who import toothpicks and boiled eggs into the country.

Tinubu is a thief and a scammer

The drug baron has nothing to show for the 1½ years in office except lies, fraud and hardship.

Okay

If the catalytic converter is not working then we need to know the product yield.

What happened to the heavy naphtha, are we selling to allied petrochemical industries and who is tracking it, if in storage.

Otherwise if we fail to account for it, it will end in another story.

No be only clean bill of health. If I may ask, how many of those engineers have ever worked in a working refinery in their life time?

PressMyButton:

This information is not for bitter people, it's for enlightenment of those who have been deceived by the merchants of FAKE NEWS.

get lost sir

Lamba. When the money they paid you to publish this finish, come back and say the truth

All of a sudden, the refinery have started working, all because they are not getting what they have been stealing from Nigeria, since Dangote refinery came on board.

Joke

Can't it refine fuel?

i laugh in swahili,today refining is working,tomorrow not working,next tomorow working

make una dey mumu una self

this is too early to confuse the agbero union.

We find ourselves in a confuse society

Someone tell those imbeciles that propaganda doesn't run a refinery

I have never in my life seen anywhere on earth a group of people would hate their country this much, because this is beyond unpatriotism. How can you wish your country bad so much that you wish for the refineries not to work, like many people here expect? It's the same unpatriotism Ngozi O. Iweala briefly showed when she won't receive salary in Naira but dollar, so much Obasanjo had to beg her and it became national news—Nobody would do that to their country. Never seen a thing like that elsewhere except with us Africa. Same way Onana tarried before representing Cameroon in the world cup.

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We are watching. I don't want a ghost refinery

When they are done fooling themselves, they should tell us

It takes less than 45 minutes to load a truck manually and it takes less than 5 minutes to load a truck automatically . Now you claimed you are loading automatically but why is it taking eternity to load trucks? Stop all these lies and be responsible once in your life.

A country where majority prefer bad news just to drive a political point has no path to redemption. Unfortunately, their incompetent Messiah has nothing to offer as well and the most interesting thing is, even if the country collapse completely, the current president will be there till May, 2031. 😆

OK


Let us see more effect of it ,


Princess FaithChukwu

If it’s working you don’t need to say anything, we’ll see the results

Kyari has been used and used, might be dumped very soon

cool.

Anyway, Agriculture is life