{"id":11536,"date":"2024-12-21T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2024-12-21T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:42:14","slug":"nnpc-debunks-shutdown-rumors-port-harcourt-refinery-fully-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/nnpc-debunks-shutdown-rumors-port-harcourt-refinery-fully-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC Debunks Shutdown Rumors: Port Harcourt Refinery Fully Operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has dismissed recent media reports claiming that the Old Port Harcourt Refinery has been shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In a statement issued by Olufemi O. Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd., the company reaffirmed that the refinery remains fully operational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to the statement, the refinery, which was re-streamed two months ago, has continued to function efficiently. The operational status was recently verified by a team of former Group Managing Directors of NNPC during an inspection visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cPreparation for the day\u2019s loading operation is currently ongoing,\u201d Soneye noted, emphasizing that the reports of a shutdown are baseless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He described such claims as \u201cfigments of the imagination of those who want to create artificial scarcity and rip-off Nigerians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">NNPC urged the public to disregard the false reports and assured Nigerians of its commitment to maintaining steady refinery operations to meet the nation\u2019s energy needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">This clarification comes amid heightened concerns about fuel supply and market stability, with NNPC calling on stakeholders to refrain from actions that could disrupt the petroleum distribution chain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has dismissed recent media reports claiming that the Old Port Harcourt Refinery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11537,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions\/11537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}