Mr. Babatunde Sofowora (Executive Director Services), The Port Harcourt Refining Company, (abbreviated PHRC), is a Nigeria-based oil and gas company primarily specializing in the refining of crude oil into petroleum products.

It is headquartered in Port Harcourt metropolitan area of Rivers State, southeastern Nigeria.

[3] Located in Alesa Eleme just to the southeast of Port Harcourt, the company operates two oil refineries, including an old plant commissioned in 1965 that can process 60,000 barrels (9,500 m3) per stream day, as well as the new plant commissioned in 1989, which has a capacity of 150,000 barrels (24,000 m3) per stream day.

This has led to Nigeria, Africa's largest crude oil producer, becoming increasingly reliant on imports of refined petroleum products.

[7] The refinery complex has an 84 MW gas fired electric power plant,[9] and four boilers each with a steam generation capacity of 120 tonnes (t) per hour.