The newly-appointed Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery Kofi Mocumbi Tagoe is hopeful the refinery will resume refining crude in the next three months.
The 45,000 barrel per stream day facility has been idle for several years and an attempt by the government to revive it has failed multiple times due to a lack of transparency in the selection process of a strategic partner.
It is not yet clear the strategy the new Managing Director will be adopting to turn the refinery around, however, speaking to the press on Tuesday, during the visit of the Minister of State at the Ministry of Energy, Herbert Krapa, Mr Mocumbi Tagoe, the TOR MD stated categorically that in the next three months, TOR is going to get a letter.
“We’re going to start our plant. We are going to get the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) started and functional.”
He added that in about a year, the Residual Cataractic Cracker will also start working as well as the PRF.
Mr Mocumbi Tagoe said the new management systematic plan would lead to the expansion of the crude processing capacity of the refinery from 45,000 barrels per stream daily to 100,000 per stream daily.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com