The Port Harcourt Refinery survived a major blow out Wednesday as a fire outbreak in the facility was quickly brought under control.
A section of the refinery, which recent resumed production went up in flames, but the fire was which burned for about five minutes was put out.
“Yes, it is true that there was a fire outbreak in the Port Harcourt refinery, but it was contained in 5 minutes,” Billy Gillis-Harry Petroleum Retailers Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria president told Daily Post.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. It is coming after the Trans-Niger Pipeline in the Omwawriwa axis of the Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local and Bodo-Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, was hit with an explosion on Monday night.
President Bola Tinubu’s government blamed the blow out on the suspened River State governor Siminalayi Fubara of encouraging Niger Delta militants to cause the blast. The militants had warned that they will carry out attacks on oil installations if Fubara was impeached and the Rivers State Federal Allocation was not released.
