bushdoc9919:
Thanks to the OP for this. Hope everyone reads it!

manutdadex:
the issue of fuel scarcity has been staring at our faces for a long time, d Gej admin manged d situation very well nt until diis very last minute! Nigerians are subconsously ruining dis nation! We cry fowl wen tinz dont benefit us imediatly forgeting d long term benefits. The issue of fuel subsidy protest is stil fresh on our mind...ask ur self y d bill as not been passd into law? Coruption's HQ is d oil industry! Gej saw this coming!

Generalkorex:
Nice one bro
Nigeria is blessed with alot of genius. People who can think out of the box. People like onegig and tonychristopher.

Toks2008:


its AMAZING GIVING KUDOS TO THIS ARTICLE THAT A KINDERGARTEN CAN DECIPHER.

OUR PROBLEM IS CORRUPTION and if the federal government can be sincere,it does not take rocket science to provide working refineries and of-course creating new ones then fully privatize the upstream and downstream sector in a sincere manner.

christopher123:
Too much of everything is just bad this include education and certificates, this is one reason that too much educated people get employed and less educated people employ them. This is the trend in the world and it can never change. The over educated man will analyse analyse, peruse and criticise something before an action is take. But the less educated man will fold his sleeves gives it a trial, that is why today we have the COSCHARIS,DANGOTES, FACEBOOK, JOBS, ETC these dudes have little education and they employ these so called book worm and they blow grammer.

That is by the way, why am taking time to tackle this, I see people saying this is a nice article I just laugh..What is nice about this article and the writer. To me he is just swriting bunkum and bullshit I must be frank. What is so special about refining crude oil. It is simple elemnatary chemistry. For thos of us that studied chemistry and did practicval. I mean those that went to good schools and I appreciate the school I attended in imo state with the best lab. That is by the way the principle of refining oil is called fractional distillation and the experiment is simple not rocket science and I wonder why Nigeria can’t build packets of small refineries with small capacities for each state. I wonder how Nigeria won’t allow individuals to fabricate refineries with small capacities to service state. Some person is making a presentation with diagram
For heaven sake Biafra forces drilled and refined their oil under war conditions and these refineries were a mobile and dismountable ones and they powered their aircrafts with that and their tanks so what is even special about refining this crude, ordinary fractional distillation. Go to creeks and see how local illiterates are refining oil with drum and for those of us that is impressed with this grammar let me break it down for you how fractional distillation works …..Fractional distillation is the separation of a mixture into its component parts, or fractions, such as in separating chemical compounds by their boiling point by heating them to a temperature at which one or more fractions of the compound will vaporize.
Funny enough crude oil refining is even simple distillation and I keep asking how and why we cant just think. The core refining process is simple distillation . Because crude oil is made up of a mixture of hydrocarbons, this first and basic refining process is aimed at separating the crude oil into its "fractions," the broad categories of its component hydrocarbons. Crude oil is heated and put into a still—a distillation column—and different products boil off and can be recovered at different temperatures. The lighter products—liquid petroleum gases (LPG), naphtha, and so-called "straight run" gasoline—are recovered at the lowest temperatures. Middle distillates—jet fuel, kerosene, distillates (such as home heating oil and diesel fuel)—come next. Finally, the heaviest products (residuum or residual fuel oil) are recovered, sometimes at temperatures over 1000 degrees F. The simplest refineries stop at this point. Other refineries reprocess the heavier fractions into lighter products to maximize the output of the most desirable products.
Just know that the cabals or bunch of mudaphukers will paint the picture that refining crude is just a sophisticated thing but igbos have done that ages and Nigerian can grasp it, the reason why refinaries wont work is simple, Nigerian intellectual laziness and dirty tendencies and also inability to think out of the box and finally we have been ruled by bunch of donkeys in the name of rulers and leaders. What is in refining oil. Get a container set it heat and at a particular temperature PMS comes out and a particular temperature DPK and other products come out. If they cant get it right they should consult the Biafrans if they are proud to do this they should consult the creeks boys in Bayelsa, I shouldn’t be teaching you chemistry but the truth must be told, kabals wont allow the refinery to work…SIMPLE

BREAK DOWN OF SIMPLE REFINARY
The most important refinery product is motor gasoline, a blend of hydrocarbons with boiling ranges from ambient temperatures to about 400° F. The important qualities for gasoline are octane number (antiknock), volatility (starting and vapor lock), and vapor pressure (environmental control). Additives are often used to enhance performance and provide protection against oxidation and rust formation.

Kerosene is a refined middle-distillate petroleum product that finds considerable use as a jet fuel and around the world in cooking and space heating. When used as a jet fuel, some of the critical qualities are freeze point, flash point, and smoke point. Commercial jet fuel has a boiling range of about 375°-525° F, and military jet fuel 130°-550° F. Kerosene, with less-critical specifications, is used for lighting, heating, solvents, and blending into diesel fuel.

Liquified petroleum gas (LPG) consists principally of propane and butane and is produced for use as fuel and is an intermediate material in the manufacture of petrochemicals. The important specifications for proper performance include vapor pressure and control of contaminants.

Distillate fuels such as diesel fuels and domestic heating oils have boiling ranges of about 400°-700° F. The desirable qualities required for distillate fuels include controlled flash and pour points, clean burning, no deposit formation in storage tanks, and a proper diesel fuel cetane rating for good starting and combustion.

Residual fuels are heavier oils, known as No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils, that remain after the distillate fuel oils and lighter hydrocarbons are distilled away in refinery operations. Many marine vessels, power plants, commercial buildings and industrial facilities use residual fuels or combinations of residual and distillate fuels for heating and processing. The two most critical specifications of residual fuels are viscosity and low sulfur content for environmental control.

A variety of solvents, whose boiling points and hydrocarbon composition are closely controlled, are produced in refineries. These include benzene, toluene, and xylene.

Petrochemicals are products derived from crude oil refining, such as ethylene, propylene, butylene, and isobutylene, that are primarily intended for use as chemical feedstocks in the production of plastics, synthetic fibers, synthetic rubbers, and other products.

Lubricants are produced in special refining processes. Additives such as demulsifiers, antioxidants, and viscosity improvers are blended into the base stocks to provide the characteristics required for motor oils, industrial greases, lubricants, and cutting oils. The most critical quality for lubricating-oil base stock is a high viscosity index, which provides for greater consistency under varying temperatures.

Coke is a residue high in carbon content and low in hydrogen that is the final product of thermal decomposition in the condensation process in cracking. It is almost pure carbon with a variety of uses from electrodes to charcoal briquets.

Asphalt is dark brown-to-black cement-like material obtained by petroleum processing and containing bitumens as the predominant component. It used primarily for road construction and roofing materials, and thus must be inert to most chemicals and weather conditions.

Generalkorex:
Nice one bro
Nigeria is blessed with alot of genius. People who can think out of the box. People like onegig and tonychristopher.

Generalkorex:
Nice one bro
Nigeria is blessed with alot of genius. People who can think out of the box. People like onegig and tonychristopher.

baralatie:

this your solution is called shooting oneself in the foot.
it can never work

PassingShot:
Firstly, the OP failed to acknowledge that corruption is the main reason why refining our own crude is more expensive than imported fuel.

Secondly, all other OPEC members refine their crude to give fuel to their citizens at far cheaper price than us. How come they didn't export their crude and import refined fuel in return.

onegig:
I didn't even see his response before typing mine. Any sensible person who knows how things function would understand refining for local consumption might seem hard but very simple when you look at it holistically. The guy just copied some opinions here and there, added some irrelevant images and believes he is making sense. His bandwagon of friends who can't peruse an article keeps clapping in tow.

Solving problems is not hard when you break it down to smaller ones. There are people in the Niger delta who refine their crude oil with just tools you can readily find in a local market,only that the octane rating may not be up to industry standards. If the people using drums and logs of wood can refine oil, what is now hard for a country as big as Nigeria to refine and meet local productions? Is not to just make fractional columns, heat to a specific temperature, distill each components out till you get your desired products out?

prophetfire:
You have good points but if we dnt kill corruption in the system, we cant make it.our rulers know what is right,but they chose to do the one that ll fill their pockets with stolen money. Even if God himself gives us the plan himself,if corruption runs it,it wnt work. CORRUPTION AND SELF-INTEREST ARE OUR PROBLEMS.

PassingShot:
Firstly, the OP failed to acknowledge that corruption is the main reason why refining our own crude is more expensive than imported fuel.

Secondly, all other OPEC members refine their crude to give fuel to their citizens at far cheaper price than us. How come they didn't export their crude and import refined fuel in return.

onegig:
I didn't even see his response before typing mine. Any sensible person who knows how things function would understand refining for local consumption might seem hard but very simple when you look at it holistically. The guy just copied some opinions here and there, added some irrelevant images and believes he is making sense. His bandwagon of friends who can't peruse an article keeps clapping in tow.

Solving problems is not hard when you break it down to smaller ones. There are people in the Niger delta who refine their crude oil with just tools you can readily find in a local market,only that the octane rating may not be up to industry standards. If the people using drums and logs of wood can refine oil, what is now hard for a country as big as Nigeria to refine and meet local productions? Is not to just make fractional columns, heat to a specific temperature, distill each components out till you get your desired products out?

onegig:
There are people in the Niger delta who refine their crude oil with just tools you can readily find in a local market,only that the octane rating may not be up to industry standards. If the people using drums and logs of wood can refine oil, what is now hard for a country as big as Nigeria to refine and meet local productions? Is not to just make fractional columns, heat to a specific temperature, distill each components out till you get your desired products out?

Pavore9:
l am still imagining how the garri brought in from Umunede, Delta state will be cheaper in my village market in lmo state than the garri processed in my village!

Toks2008:


That is why we will never move forward as long as we believe that proffering a definitive solution to solving an endemic problem will never work.

Have you looked at the pump price of other oil producing and exporting companies? Have you asked yourself why they are not in the same mess as we are in?

Its because their leaders are not corrupt. Look at the article and i have read it more than twice and the only logical thing i see there is an enumeration of our problem...CORRUPTION. If other oil producing countries are selling premium spirits cheaper than us then there must be something they are doing that we need to learn from.

This is a simple picture.

The past leaders purposely allowed the refineries to get destroyed so that they can start exporting crude and in that process smuggle more crude than documented and because of this Nigeria leaders disobeyed the maritime guidelines of using our own vessels and the resorted to hiring foreign vessels so that we will not know the actual number of barrels exported.

When these finished products are brought in we still do not allow these vessels come near our shores but we also used hired vessels to go bring them from the high sea and the ones we see is what we account for while those that have diverted to other countries have done so.

So what are we saying? that Nigerians should bear the suffering of the sharp practices of our corrupt leaders? GOD forbid.

Its like the people in Ijebu land buying Ijebu garri costly because they have to bring cassava to Lagos,process it to garri ijebu and they now take this garri back to the ijebus and sell for high price due to the crazy process of taking cassava out of ijebu land and bringing in ijebu garri.

The question is cant they repair the facilities that got damaged? do we not have experts that can repair them?

The Op should go back and get his facts right. We are not interested in knowing what we already know but we need a blue print to curb corruption and give Nigerians cheaply what we already have.

onegig:
I didn't even see his response before typing mine. Any sensible person who knows how things function would understand refining for local consumption might seem hard but very simple when you look at it holistically. The guy just copied some opinions here and there, added some irrelevant images and believes he is making sense. His bandwagon of friends who can't peruse an article keeps clapping in tow.

Solving problems is not hard when you break it down to smaller ones. There are people in the Niger delta who refine their crude oil with just tools you can readily find in a local market,only that the octane rating may not be up to industry standards. If the people using drums and logs of wood can refine oil, what is now hard for a country as big as Nigeria to refine and meet local productions? Is not to just make fractional columns, heat to a specific temperature, distill each components out till you get your desired products out?

Sunnybobo3:


The people who refine petrol in the Niger Delta using the method you described above can't be compared to conventional refineries.

1.) They do not buy their crude oil, they steal it.
2.) They do not buy the logs of fire wood you mentioned, they get it locally
It's like saying that since I can make orange juice at home with a few oranges from the orange in my garden, Nigeria can then manufacture orange juice at a price cheaper than imported ones.

Nigeria cultivates groundnut yet imported groundnut oil is cheaper.

We have large palm plantations yet it is cheaper to import oil from Malaysia.

baralatie:

now you guess are asking the right questions!

Generalkorex:

am telling you
during dis fuel scarcity We bought a locally refined petrol.and we found out dat it last longer than "standard one" mere looking at the fuel you would knew its of low standard.it looks exactly like kerosine.
Just The same thing my uncle used to buy when he was in PH.

Sunnybobo3:

??

Sunnybobo3:


Nobody is arguing or doubting the ability or capacity to refine crude in Nigeria. Based on the present political economics reality on ground, at what cost will a litre be refined in Nigeria?

baralatie:

the cost will be market driven!

Sunnybobo3:


Ever wondered why yam brought in from Oturkpo Benue State is cheaper than yam cultivated in your village?

Sunnybobo3:


Ever wondered why yam brought in from Oturkpo Benue State is cheaper than yam cultivated in your village?

Sunnybobo3:


Considering present realities, do you think fuel refined in Nigeria would be cheaper than one imported?