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2,500bpd Duport Modular Refinery will be inaugurated Q4’21 – NCDMB

By Teddy Nwanunobi

The 2,500 barrels per day (bpd) Duport Modular Refinery that is being established at Egbokor, Edo State, has reached 80 per cent completion, and would be ready for inauguration by the fourth quarter of 2021 (Q4’21), the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote, has said.

Wabote, in a video clip posted on the Board’s Twitter account, said the operational phase of the refinery, which was being established by Duport Midstream Company Ltd., in partnership with the NCDMB, would create direct employment for 100 persons and induced jobs for no fewer than 1,500 others.

He also explained that the refinery, which was part of the Duport Energy Park, was conceived to include a 30 million standard cubic feet per day gas processing facility and a power plant.

Wabote disclosed that the modules for the two megawatts power plant and the control room were being fabricated and assembled in Lagos State for delivery to the site.

He commended the contractors for the substantial progress they had made on the project.

According to him, the Board will continue to partner with investors to develop critical energy facilities that would create millions of jobs for Nigerians.

“When the Federal Government enunciated the policy on the development of modular refineries, NCDMB decided to explore ways through which we can build modular refineries to refine products locally.

“We first partnered with Waltersmith Modular Refinery in Imo State, and it is already operational, refining 5,000 barrels of crude per day.

“Azikel Modular Refinery in Bayelsa State is the second one and the Duport project is the third project, and we believe that it will be commissioned in the last quarter of this year,” he said.

Also speaking, the Chairman of Duport Midstream Company, Dr Akintoye Akindele, said the project would be the first integrated energy park, with a scalable and environmentally friendly modular refinery, power generation and distribution plant.

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