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    Nigeria in talks with Chevron, Total and Eni to revamp refineries

    March 31, 2016
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    *Port Harcourt refinery.
    *Port Harcourt refinery.

    Oscarline Onwuemenyi

    31 March 2016 , Sweetcrude, Abuja – The Federal government has disclosed that it is in talks with oil majors Chevron, France’s Total and Italy’s ENI to get help revamping the ailing refineries, after which they would be privatised for greater efficiency.

    The country has been trying to restart its outdated refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna to end its dependency on costly fuel imports. For weeks, motorists across the country have been queuing to get petrol.

    The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, who disclosed this in Abuja when he met with the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), insisted that the government would privatise the refineries within 12 months following repairs.

    He said, “We have gotten commitments from some of the majors. (ENI’s) Agip has indicated interest to work with us on Port Harcourt, Chevron on Warri. We are talking to Total on Kaduna.”

    Kachikwu has previously said Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was looking at partnerships or takeovers.

    “We are advertising just in case there are better terms out there,” he said, adding that NNPC was also seeking partners to run pipelines and fuel depots as joint ventures.

    NNPC had managed to repair the pipelines feeding the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries, he said. Kaduna is fed by a pipeline from Warri.

    Kachikwu said that from next week on fuel queues would disappear. He said NNPC had reached deals with oil majors, with which it works in joint ventures, to help make up for a shortage of dollars due to a slump in oil revenues hindering fuel imports.

    “The major international upstream oil companies have indicated their willingness to support major oil marketing companies with some of the required foreign exchange,” Kachikwu said.

    “As of today, we have been able to work, in collaboration with the majors to see how they can sell us foreign exchange for the naira components they require for their local operations,” he said, without giving details.

    Kachikwu has earlier disclosed that NNPC was in talks with oil majors and banks to raise capital for new drilling and to repay its debt accumulated from years of mismanagement. The debt had fallen to $3 billion by December, down from $3.5-$4 billion, he said.

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