NNPC Begins Search For Credible Firms To Operate, Maintain Warri, Kaduna Refineries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has announced its search for reputable and credible operations and maintenance (O&M) companies to operate and maintain two key refineries in the country: the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).

In a statement posted on its official X handle on Friday, NNPC Limited explained that this initiative is part of its strategy to ensure the reliability and sustainability of these refineries, which are critical to meeting Nigeria’s fuel supply and energy security obligations.

“The O&M tender for WRPC and KRPC will be treated as a single tender through a three stage tender process (expression of interest, EOI, technical and commercial) leveraging on all the possible opportunity costs associated with procurement of consumables, personnel/manpower management, utilisation of computerised maintenance management software (CMMS), warehousing management system (WMS) etc,” the statement detailed.

NNPC further outlined the scope of work under the O&M contract, which includes long-term and short-term production and operations planning, execution and optimisation of operations, maintenance planning and execution, reliability and inspection, process and controls engineering, quality control and assurance, health and safety management, environmental management, turnaround maintenance planning and execution, minor projects, and subcontractor management. Inventory and warehouse management also form part of the contract’s scope.

The company emphasised that eligible bidders must fill out and submit mandatory details through a specified online link- http://forms.office.com/r/kjSyVwz3Eg- by midnight on Thursday, 12th September 2024. Interested parties will then be notified of their registration in the NNPC Limited/NipeX tender process portal, allowing them to make their formal submissions.

NNPC concluded by stating that all bid submissions should be clearly titled: “EOI for the provision of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for NNPC Limited Refining: Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).”