…reiterates commitment towards Automating NNPC’s downstream facilities.
Group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has confirmed that the recently launched Operation White initiative is beginning to yield positive results.
What is NNPC’s Operation White Project?
The initiative is aimed at taking stock of every drop of white products in every NNPC’s location nationwide, particularly Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
Results Of Operation White
He said as a control mechanism, the Operation White has so far produced significant results as the corporation now clearly knows the areas of losses as well as reliability and integrity status of each and every facility under its control.
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Speaking during a tour of the state-of-the-art products loading facility and lubricants manufacturing plant of MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, an indigenous oil company based in Lagos on Wednesday, Kyari said the control measures adopted in the initiative have produced results.
“The evacuations from many of the depots have drastically gone down. We shall go further on this and ensure that the evacuation issues are brought to the nearest level possible,”
Kyari
According to him, as an enabler company with the responsibility of ensuring energy security for the country, NNPC would sustain its engagement drive of the downstream stakeholders, adding that every stakeholder along the subsector value chain was very critical.
The NNPC boss stated that the Corporation was also poised to automate its downstream facilities such as depots, pump stations and measurement systems across the country, stressing that the move would align with the corporation’s commitment to accountability and transparency and efficiency in the sub-sector.
He particularly acknowledged the recent successful operations of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) which he said had helped tremendously in reducing the cross-border leakages and losses suffered by the country.
In his response, the group chief executive officer of MRS Oil Nig. Plc, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata, welcomed the move by the NNPC to upgrade and automate its systems and processes so as to bring more efficiency and curtail losses across the downstream value-chain.
By Chibisi Ohakah
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