The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has claimed its members could be able to load products from the Port Harcourt refinery this week.
In an interview with Vanguard, the Public Relations Officer, IPMAN, Chief Chinedu Ukadike, said the refinery currently supplies only NNPC retail and a few marketers.
Ukadike explained that with the expected increase in the supply of petroleum products from the refinery, independent marketers were expected to load products from the facility.
He also disclosed that marketers were now lifting directly from Dangote Refinery after the deal reached with the management and the decision of the refinery to reduce the minimum bulk purchase for marketers to two million litres for petrol.
“Our members are buying products from Dangote Refinery because Dangote has finally reduced the minimum quantity of bulk purchase to two million litres. So most of our members are now able to access it”.
This was even as Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners’ Association, PETROAN, have continued talks, targeted at concluding details for lifting petroleum products.
The NNPC Limited owned 60,000 barrels per day refinery which commenced operations last week is said to be refining at 70 percent capacity.
