Complete Orient Petroleum, hotels and transform Anambra into another Dubai – Obi urges Obiano

Anambra State Government has been advised to complete two major projects yearning for urgent attention in the State to create additional jobs and increase the State’s internally generated revenue (IGR).

The projects are Orient Petroleum and two five star hotels in Onitsha and Awka that are under construction.

His Royal Highness, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, the Obi of Onitsha, gave the advice during the 2016 Ofala Festival in Onitsha.

He affirmed that it is now technically established that there is sufficient petroleum and hydrocarbon in Anambra State, to transform the State into another Dubai, noting that Anambra is also arguably, the leading State in the country in terms of entrepreneurs, managers and technologists in the petroleum industry.

“It is now time to summon all of them to bring the hydrocarbon fields to production soonest”.

He also observed that the five star hotels in Onitsha and Awka that are under construction  have been stalled, stressing that the importance of the hotels cannot be underestimated in terms of business, conferences, conventions and tourism.

He commended the efforts made so far by the Willie Obiano-led Government to transform the  State and prayed that he would continue to govern the State with wisdom, common sense and the fear of God and that his administration would positively touch the life of everyone in the State.

Orient Petroleum Resources Plc (OPR) is one of Nigeria’s first  companies to obtain an authority to construct a private petroleum refinery in Nigeria.

OPR was also granted OPLs 915 and 916 oil blocks petroleum prospecting license blocks by the Federal Government of Nigeria, to provide a dependable source of crude oil feedstock to the Orient Refinery and thus provide long-term security for the investment in the refinery.

OPR-Refining and Petrochemicals Plc, was incorporated as a subsidiary of OPR with the purpose of establishing a refinery to process crude oil produced by OPR from its oil and gas concessions into refined petroleum products in a phased steps to maximum licensed 55,000bpd.

The firm has invested considerable amount of resources, including equity funding to create significant value and achieve several milestones; including land acquisition, completion of process equipment design, topographical surveys, geotechnical and geological surveys, search and successful drilling of water wells, site civil works, including tank construction.