The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC Ltd, says it is seeking a short and long term operations and maintenance services contract for the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, and Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC.
The company, through its spokesperson, Mr Olufemi Soneye, stressed its readiness to ensure sustained production and enhance refining quality at its Warri and Kaduna plants.
Soneye said the company will be adopting new maintenance and compliance measures, as well as deploying cutting-edge technology solutions.
The move, which is part of its sustainable and profit-driven measures, will cover a lot of areas including long-term and short-term production and operations planning, and production and operations execution.
“The scope of work for the O&M shall cover, but will not be limited to, the following: Monitoring, reporting, and optimization of operations, Maintenance planning (short term), Maintenance execution and Reliability and inspection.
Others are “Process and control engineering, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Laboratory, Specialist engineering, Health and Safety, Environmental management, Turnaround maintenance planning and execution, Minor projects, Non-hydrocarbon Procurement, Sub-contractor management, Inventory and warehouse management.”
Soneye said “One of the objectives is to ensure and guarantee steady and sustained refining production while adhering to the best maintenance and regulatory compliance ethics at the minimum cost of refining and production per barrels.”
Regarding the tender procedure for the operation and maintenance services and how it will be conducted, the spokesman disclosed that “there will be a three stage tender process viz: Expression of Interest, Technical and Commercial.”
He also disclosed that the operation and maintenance is expected “to improve on our refining process that guarantees quality through the application of the latest technology including Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS), Warehousing Management System (WMS).”
He said the specific activities included under the production and operations execution within the O&M contract “consists of the Scope of O&M Services covering all refining areas within the plans including reined products from different slats covering: MIXED LPG, PMS, HHK, ATK, AGO & LPFO.”
