Dangote Refinery Rebuts NMDPRA Allegations on Product Quality with Evidence of Accredited Lab – Notice Important Web

As Dangote Refinery fights backwards allegations by African Upstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) that its civilised products are base to imported ones, a honor seen by THISDAY has shown that the restrictive dominance authorised the firm’s in-house impact for the investigating of vulgar lubricator products.

The authorised act dated March 28, 2024 and addressed to Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals, Lekki, said the impact had mitigated the peak responsibility for accreditation.

The concern is reaching to the forward after a open quarrel between the managers of the artefact and NMDPRA as to the calibre of products churned discover from the $19 1000000000 refinery.

President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had Sat said products civilised at the facility, the world’s maximal azygos information refinery, were of crack calibre compared to imported equivalents and met planetary standards.

Dangote insisted on investigating another diesel products, alongside Dangote’s diesel at the refinery’s state-of-the-art laboratory.

Earlier, the diesel samples procured from digit well-known stuff stations nearby Eleko junction, along the Lekki Epe Expressway, overseen by whatever temporary lawmakers, revealed that Dangote’s diesel had a treat noesis of 87.6 ppm, whereas the another digit samples showed treat levels prodigious 1800 ppm and 2,000 ppm, respectively.

Dangote emphasised that the findings debunked claims prefabricated by Chief Executive of NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, who fresh asserted that imported diesel surpassed domestically civilised products.

Ahmed had questionable that Dangote refinery and another modular refineries, same Waltersmith and Aradel, produced diesel with treat noesis ranging from 650 to 1200 ppm, a evidence criticised by some Nigerians as a manoeuvre to tendency imported products over topical ones.

But the honor subscribed by Executive Director, Heath, Safety Environmental & Community, NMDPRA, Mustapha Lamorde, on behalf of Ahmed, expressed that the accreditation awninged analyses of vulgar oil, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), naphtha, gasoline, HHK/ATF, and AGO or diesel exclusive handled/produced in the refinery.

The honor read, “Reference is prefabricated to the scrutiny exercises carried discover on your impact artefact by the officers of the Authority on 19 Oct 2023, 19 Dec 2023 & 1 9— 22 March 2024 respectively.

“The inform of the inspections revealed that your impact has mitigated the peak responsibility in cost of equipment and organisation to intercommunicate an in-house Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) of petroleum/petroleum products.

“Consequently, an interval accreditation (Phase l) is acknowledged to your impact on the information that the accreditation covers analyses of Crude Oil, LPG, Naphtha, Gasoline, HHK/ATF, and AGO only) handled/produced in your refinery.

“Therefore, upon termination of another sections of the oil impact and ensuant relocation, re-installation, and state of equipment designated for these sections. You are required to re-invite the Authority for substantiation scrutiny and accreditation inspect for the Wet Chemistry country of the artefact (Phase Il accreditation audit), the honor stated.

“Additionally, the form Ill orbit of the impact accreditation which includes the plastic laboratory, chemical store, distribution possession room, bottleful impact room, and the current subject impact at the outdoor conception of the facility, NMDPRA said, shall be re-inspected for accreditation.

“You are due to elicit the Authority for inspection/audit of these sections (Phase Ill accreditation audit), and afterward the effort inspect and accreditation of the whole facility.

“Furthermore, you are required to accede an electronic double of your state inform in a Microsoft Excel info quarterly to hsec@nmdpra.gov.na alongside the hornlike copies. The state inform as a peak should contain: Status of your impact equipment ll. Types of analyses conducted, and effort methods utilised and sort and batch(s) of samples analysed.”

The honor also said some organisation changes (analysts), or effort epistemology should be reportable to the Authority in composition within digit weeks before the fellow of much changes.

Failure to obey with some of the conditions in the approval, it stressed, module draw pertinent resulting direction action.

Emmanuel Addeh

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