Dubai-based Gulf Transport and Trading will load a cargo of low-sulphur fuel oil (LSFO) from Nigeria’s Port Harcourt oil refinery this week after winning a tender, an industry source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

The 15,000 metric ton LSFO cargo was offered in a tender, which closed last week, by Nigerian state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd.

The Port Harcourt refinery is the first of NNPC Ltd’s four oil refineries to return from upgrade work announced in 2020. The 210,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity refinery will initially produce 60,000 bpd.

NNPC limited did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Julia Payne in Brussels and MacDonald Dzirutwe in Lagos, writing by Robert Harvey in London; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)