“No production activities as the (Port Harcourt) refinery remained in shutdown mode. “The Port Harcourt refinery has still been supplying diesel since May, when it was shut down. The shutdown of the Port Harcourt Refining Company for maintenance has entered its seventh month, and the plant has yet to resume operations. The Port Harcourt refinery was declared operational by the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, in November 2024, after years of inactivity. It said the newly rehabilitated complex of the old Port Harcourt refinery, which had been revamped and upgraded with modern equipment, was operating at a refining capacity of 70 per cent of its installed capacity.

Source: Punch December 30, 2025 14:28 UTC