Marketers and retailers of petroleum will begin to lift PMS from Port Harcourt this week.
This was confirmed by the publicity secretary of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN, Joseph Obele in a recent interview with newsmen.
According to the publicity secretary, the refinery has been supplying petrol to NNPCL outlets only. He expressed concern, stating that the outlets were selling at higher rates to some states.
He said “NNPC is still telling us to buy at a rate different from the rate they are selling to Lagos at the moment because of logistics. So, Port Harcourt retail outlet owners are not really comfortable with that. Hence, the Port Harcourt refinery will start servicing us this week.
“We are also requesting that the same rate NNPC is selling to our members at Lagos should be the rate they will be selling to us over here in Port Harcourt too. We are not really comfortable with that disparity,” he added.
