Again, Dangote Refinery has said that it never accused the NNPC of not supplying it with crude oil.
This is coming days after Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals Company’s Aliyu Suleiman, on Wednesday, stated that 60 per cent of the crude supplied to the refinery was done by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
Aliyu who is the he Group Chief Strategy Officer, Dangote Refinery made the submission during an interactive session organised by the Senate Ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged sabotage in the Nigerian petroleum industry.
This supersedes the position of the Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Rabiu A. Umar, who had ealier claimed that the NNPC has been supplying insufficient crude oil for its production demand, while speaking recently with newsmen in Kano.
Umar had said that NNPC supplies only 33 per cent of crude to the refinery, disclosing that it had to look elsewhere to source the remaining 67 per cent to meet its production capacity.
However, rather than wholly admit the misleading statement Umar made in Kano, a statement made available to us by Anthony Chiejina Group Chief, Branding and Communications Officer denied that Dangote Refinery has never never accused NNPC of not supplying it with crude.
Below is the full text of the latest statement.
“Our attention has been drawn to media reports alleging that the Dangote Refinery has backtracked by acknowledging that NNPC supplied about 60% of the 50 million barrels we lifted. To clarify, we have never accused NNPC of not supplying us with crude. Our concern has always been NUPRC’s reluctance to enforce the domestic crude supply obligation and ensure that we receive our full crude requirement from NNPC and the IOCs.For September, our requirement is 15 cargoes, of which NNPC allocated six. Despite appealing to NUPRC, we’ve been unable to secure the remaining cargoes. When we approached IOCs producing in Nigeria, they redirected us to their international trading arms or responded that their cargoes were committed.Consequently, we often purchase the same Nigerian crude from international traders at an additional $3-$4 premium per barrel which translates to $3-$4 million per cargoWe therefore still insist that we are unable to secure our full crude requirement from domestic production and urge NUPRC to fully enforce the domestic crude supply obligation as mandated by the PIA.”
Signed,Anthony Chiejina Group Chief, Branding and Communications Officer
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