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Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company
commenced production on Saturday December 19,
months after production was suspended at the refinery.


Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, managing director, Pipelines
and Products Marketing Company (PPMC) said the
refinery was reopened to meet up with the December
deadline for the four refineries to return to full
production.


The PPMC boss disclosed to Premium Times that the
refinery is expected to commence trucking of petrol by
the end of next week.

”Kaduna refinery came back on stream on Saturday as
scheduled and is running. 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


Nnamdi-Ogbue said resumption of production in other
refineries would start before the end of the year.
According to her, production will start first at the
210,000 bpd-capacity Port Harcourt refinery which was
shut-down in October while the 125,000 bpd-capacity
Warri refinery would be the last to come back on
stream.

As the refinery resumes for production, there are hopes
that it will cushion the effect of the ongoing fuel scarcity
in the country.

The fact that PPMC is currently saddled with the
responsibility of importing and supplying 100 per cent of
the average 40 million litres daily national fuel
consumption capacity compounds the model of
distribution of the products across the country.

PPMC and the other oil marketers used to share the
responsibility of importing fuel at the ratio of 52:48 but
the major and independent oil marketers involved in the
fuel importation programme in the country had opted
out due the backlog of unpaid fuel subsidy and
accumulated foreign exchange differential.

According to NNPC monthly operational report for
October, the Kaduna refinery was temporarily shut down
when its utilisation capacity dropped to about 2.6 per
cent and 10.5 per cent respectively.

The Kaduna plant which is currently undergoing a test
run of its production lines has the capacity to refine
110,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

The group managing director of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, had earlier
issued a 90-day ultimatum to the managements of the
four refineries shortly after his appointment last August.
Source: https://www.naij.com/673444-good-news-kaduna-refinery-reopens-production.html

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