Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, which has the capacity to refine 110,000 barrels of crude oil a day, restartedproduction on Saturday after it was closed for months for repairs.

The managing director, Pipelines and Products marketing Company, Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, said on Sunday that the plant, which was closed in September, came back on stream ahead of the December deadline for Nigeria’s four refineries to return to full production.

The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, had issued a 90-day ultimatum to the managements of the fourrefineries shortly after his appointment last August.

Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue said the Kaduna plant,which is currently undergoing a test run of its production lines, is expected to commence trucking of petrol by the end ofnext week.

“Kaduna refinery came back on stream on Saturday as scheduled and is running,” thePPMC boss told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday, via text message.

“PMS (Premium Motor spirit, also called petrol) should be available for trucking by the end of the week. The refinery is expected to produce an average of about 1.6 million litres of PMS daily once in full operation,” she said.

Prior to its closure in September, Kaduna refinery had stopped working for most partof the year, except briefly in July and August, when its utilisation capacity dropped to about 2.6 per cent and 10.5 per cent respectively, according the NNPC monthly operational report for October.

On Friday, Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue said resumption of production in other refineries would follow before the end of the year, first by the 210,000 bpd-capacity Port Harcourt refinery shut-down since October.

The 125,000 bpd-capacity Warri refinery, which was closed since September for repairs, would be the last to come back on stream, according to the resumption timeline expected to see all the refineries come back on before the end of the year.

The restart of production at the Kaduna refinery should be a cheering news for Nigerians, who have endured weeks of scarcity of petroleum products.

Part of the problem is because PPMC is currently saddled with the responsibility ofimporting and supplying 100 per cent of the average 40 million litres daily national fuel consumption capacity, as none of the major and independent oil marketers is involved in the fuel importation programme in the country at the moment.

Before now, the PPMC and the other oil marketers used to split the responsibility of importing fuel at the ratio of 52:48.

But, with the backlog of unpaid fuel subsidy and accumulated foreign exchange differential, the oil marketers had opted out of further importation, leaving it to the PPMC.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/oil-and-gas/195494-kaduna-refinery-restarts-production.html

A government must have a blueprint from whence it operates. It is not enough to administer serious units of our life wire via deadlines. Serious governments run as a system of interdependent parts and the reductionist approach taken by this APC led administration is only fit for governments in the 1920s/30s where everything worked mechanically. How can you draw efficiency from providing cut off dates? Efficiency is built within the core of a unit, the core of a system, and the reason why this strategy will fail is because, rather than deal with the core issues of inefficient management and probably dead wood facilities, we are encouraging cosmetic interventions designed to retain jobs and to give a semblance of things working.

2015, the year of the great deception is over. We agree that we have been mugged electorally. Can we allow 2016 to be different a bit please? No drama, no pictures, no international trips, no media trials just work, work, work.

After that Buhari our man can get a boo...coz even his boo....

Woaaaaw.


Welcome development.

The effect of change

MindTwister:
We were not told when it stopped. Whats our business now?

hehehehehe.


You are angry?

Game on baby. The Tarmac would be my first point of call tommorow morning.

As if kaduna refinery is container box dt can be built in five days. This is d same NNPC dt said it will be closed down because of incapacitation to produce.

Change is always welcome even if it comes in the mid-night

If this is true then glory be to God that this happens in our generation

When is dangote's refinery going to be completed and commissioned? .. That's the one I'm more interested in.

While the lovers and believers of Nigeria celebrate the good works of this government against all odds occasioned by the crass ineptitude, incompetence and morbid corruption of the immediate past administration, her enemies are busy congregating on a thread regarding what one Itse Sagey said about the war on corruption being one sided.

Let it be known to all who have eyes and ears, Nigeria is moving forward and no amount of ill will or blackmail from the harbingers of bad news will stop her in her tracks- least of all, the self appointed ones on the forum.

A very credible opinion poll was published today and evidence shows most Nigerians approve of the direction to which the government is pointing.

We have started from somewhere and we definitely can't get to our destination in one night- but surely we are making progress and it is just a matter of time before the nay-sayers begin to doubt even their own negative convictions!!

God Bless Baba!!

Good if true

Lalasticlala, please do Kachikwu this last favour tonight by taking this sermon to Church so the congregation and unbelievers could hear the gospel according to the Book of Change chapter 20 verse 15!

Thank you.

Wow! God bless the President.

MindTwister:
We were not told when it stopped. Whats our business now?

You want to start crying? You need a bucket for your tears?

Here:

We are moving forward


Long live the president

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Txonyi:
so wait instead of rehabilitating and restarting PH or WARRI refineries knowing fully well that these places produce the oil, buharam and co restarted KADUNA abi?
now if i call him a bigot tribalist or better still SADIST, running a loopsided govt now someone will start crying and calling me names abi?
well he should continue
nigeria will DIE soonest

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Children of hate running away from good PMB news

Good news. More of it in the coming year!

HtwoOw:
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Children of hate running away from good PMB news

we can't blame them
They are all running up and down as dasuki continue the list of looters

Txonyi:
so wait instead of rehabilitating and restarting PH or WARRI refineries knowing fully well that these places produce the oil, buharam and co restarted KADUNA abi?
now if i call him a bigot tribalist or better still SADIST, running a loopsided govt now someone will start crying and calling me names abi?
well he should continue
nigeria will DIE soonest

Your type, if Warri had started first, you would have asked him to settle the Boko Haram mess first before placing fingers on your oyel.

We know your MO, so this hardly comes as a surprise- and Nigeria will survive, prosper and outlive people like you who wish her death and destruction- take that from me.

Goodnews.

We need more.

Before the end of d year...all refineries shld be working at least to relieve Nigerians of dis hardship caused by fuel scarcity.

Txonyi:
so wait instead of rehabilitating and restarting PH or WARRI refineries knowing fully well that these places produce the oil, buharam and co restarted KADUNA abi?
now if i call him a bigot tribalist or better still SADIST, running a loopsided govt now someone will start crying and calling me names abi?
well he should continue
nigeria will DIE soonest

Don't cry yet, brother. More good news is coming. Save your tears for now.

Thank God

nice one.... good news

OK o

It should be kachiukwu refinery restarts production

Wailers, I am awaiting your contributions.



In other news God please give Buhari the courage to prosecute anybody involved in DasukiGate and send them all to jail...

The wailing crew will not like this.

Every broken system PDP left behind will be fixed. It may take time, but God will grant Buhari the grace to do it. The Ekpas can form all the fake impatience they want, but we will not forget they caused the mess in the first place.