BUNORR MD Calls For Legislation To Regulate Dumping Of Condemned Engine Oil

 

As  call for local content intensifies in Nigeria, Modestus Ikechukwu Okeke, the Managing Director of BUNORR Integrated Energy  Limited, has called on all relevant stakeholders at the states and national level to enact a law which  he said will make Nigerians to dump the used engine oil at a particular place.

He said, that will help companies like his have asses to enough condemned engine oil  for their  Base Oil production.

Speaking on Tuesday at Omagwa, Rivers State his company site, during a facility tour by  the media team  of NCDMB and other  members of the Press, Okeke maintained that non availability of raw materials was hampering his  high level of productivity. 

The Managing Director of BUNORR also asked that  Electricity should be extended to Omagwa Community where his factory is domiciled pleading  with Port  Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company or national grid to extend Electricity to the community.

Stating that his plant can produce up to  thirty six thousand liters of Base Oil at a go, the MD disclosed that condemned engine oil is processed to get Base Oil which is used as oil for  all  the nuts, brakes of cars and other engines.

Thanking Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board for investing about 3.6 Million Dollars Equity into the company, he asked that the board should help more in making sure that his challenges are met.

Okeke said: "Let there be a law that will guide people on the disposal of waste oil. Imagine  that we  have a bill   that will mandate you to take your used engine oil to a particular location  and if they bring it, we can pay for it. The legislation will help us a lot and then the capacity of the plant we have is quite  big to process 36,000 liters of Base Oil a day.

"The machine can run for six months nonstop but you must have raw materials. So the challenges is that, if we finish the one we have, we stop but assuming that there is a legislation, it will help us regulate them either way at  the state or federal level

"The second thing is  this area, Omagwa, is not connected to the national grid. We use our generators and we buy diesel in thousands of liters because of our production. For us to start production each day, we have to have about five thousand liters of diesel on ground for the plant and generator.

 "Yes, we are running but I believe we can run faster if we can get national power grid around this area. It will help us a great deal. It will make a whole lot of sense than relying on generators twenty four hours daily."

 The Chief Executive of BUNORR reeling  out his challenges revealed  that they can  run for one week and stop  because of lack of availability of raw materials adding "stop throwing away your used engine oil. We buy them."

He said in the last six months however, his company had commenced of commercial operations, successfully completed technical commissioning and test running of the plant. Achieved partial but stable commercial production, demonstrated the capability of the plant to operate continuously.

In his response, Teddy Bai, Chief Supervisor, Government Relations, NCDMB, who spoke on onbehalf of Dr. Obinna Ezeobi, Manager Corporate Communications, NCDMB, promised the Chief Executive that all his pleas will get to the Executive Secretary of the Board.

He praised the company for their achievements so far maintaining that the Board through the journalists on ground will make sure that their  projects and even challenges are ascalates to the whole world.

Teddy Bai said:" NCDMB will try their best to showcase this company  and this project to the world.

"The collaboration  your company and  NCDMB  starts from now and your prayers, I'm  sure will be looked into and  this project also, we consider it a Nigerian Content  initiative."

The delegation was latter taken round the facility to see all the machines for production.