NNPC Shuts Down Port Harcourt, Kaduna Refineries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said it had shut down the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries, owing to crude supply challenges arising from recent attacks on vital crude oil pipelines.

 The corporation announced the operational shutdown of the refineries on Wednesday in a statement signed by its GroupGeneral Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Mr. Ohi Alegbe.
It said the plants were shut simultaneously on Sunday after the Bonny-Okrika crude supply line to the
Port Harcourt Refinery and the Escravos-Warri crude supply line to the Kaduna Refinery suffered breaches. The NNPC stated that before the closure, the Port Harcourt Refinery was recording a daily Premium Motor Spirit yield of over 4.1 million litres, while Kaduna Refinery was posting a daily petrol production of about 1.3 million litres.According to the corporation, the Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company is still on stream and producing a little above 1.4 million Litres of petrol per day.