NNPC seeks private firms to operate Warri, Kaduna refineries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it is seeking to engage reputable and credible operations and maintenance (O&M) companies to operate and maintain two refineries. 

The refineries are the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).

This comes seven months after the national oil firm made a similar call for applications in a bid to outsource the operations and maintenance of the Port Harcourt refinery to private organisations.

NNPCL, in a statement on its official X handle on Friday, said the decision is to ensure reliability and sustainability to meet the nation’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 reads.

According to NNPC, the O&M contract scope of work will cover, but not be limited to the following: long-term and short-term production and operations planning, production and operations execution, monitoring, reporting and optimisation of operation, maintenance planning (short-term), maintenance execution, and reliability and inspection.

Others include process and controls engineering, quality control, quality assurance and laboratory, specialist engineering, health and safety, environmental management, turnaround maintenance planning and execution, minor projects, non-contractor management, subcontractor management, inventory, and warehouse management.

The oil firm said for any bidder to be eligible for the tender exercise, they are required to “fill out and submit mandatory details through this link http://forms.office.com/r/kjSyVwz3Eg on or before 12 midnight Thursday 12th September 2024”.

“Individual bidders would be duly notified on their registration in NNPC LTD/NipeX tender process portal,” the NNPC said.

“Thereafter the bidder would have access to make their submission on the NNPC LTD/NipeX tender process portal.

“All submission bids should be 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)”.

FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS 

The oil company said applicants must present audited accounts for the past four years (2020 to 2023) that include balance sheet, income and cash flow statements. 

“Provide evidence of your company’s latest credit ratings and the name of the rating agency,” the energy firm said.

“Demonstration of a minimum average annual turnover of at least $2 billion USD for the financial years ending: 2020, 2021, 2022, & 2023 respectively.”

TENDER SUBMISSION AND CLOSING DATE

The NNPC also said documents should be submitted online through the electronic NIPEX tender portal on or before 12 pm on September 26.

“The EOIs shall be opened virtually, following the deadline for EOIs submission at 12noon Thursday 10th October 2024 using the Microsoft Teams,” the oil firm said.

“Bidders who have submitted their bids and external observers shall be invited to attend the virtual live stream bid opening session.”

In the event of any unscheduled holiday on the bid submission date, the NNPC said the new deadline for submission of bids will be on the next working day.

Also, the EOI closing date and time will be extended to the next working day and time, the oil company said.