PHRC has two plants including the 60,000bpd facility, and the 150,000bpd plant.
Onanuga who also said the 60,000bpd refinery is operating at 70 per cent of installed capacity and plans to increase production shortly added that the refinery receives regular crude oil contrary to claims of lacking the product.
He disclosed this after joining a fact-finding team at the 60,000 barrels per day refinery..
In a post on X titled “Putting to Rest Rumours about Port Harcourt Refinery Complex: Our Fact-Finding Mission”, the presidential aide said the lies and doubts about the refinery had been dismissed by the team’s fact-finding mission.
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He explained that the team was satisfied with the state of the refinery.
In November, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Olufemi Soneye, announced the commencement of the Port Harcourt refinery.
NNPCL spokesman said the refinery commenced operation with 60 per cent capacity with ongoing efforts to ramp up production.
Soneye said the Refinery is processing 60,000 barrels per day of crude, adding that the facility has a combined 210,000 barrels per day capacity.