Kaduna Refinery Commences Refining

The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company
(KRPC) has began production.
The company now refines about 60,000 barrels of
crude per day following the rehabilitation of two of
the company’s production lines.
The company said it was at the moment working
with a target to release two million litres of petrol
daily into the market by October.
“We are doing a lot at the moment to make sure
that we achieve 80 per cent of refining capacity,”
Managing Director of the company, Mr. Saidu
Muhammed told Thisday on Friday.
He assured that the KRPC’s production level would
hit 90 per cent by the second quarter of 2016.
The company has an installed production capacity
of 110,000 barrels of crude per day. The managing
director said rehabilitation work on the remaining
two production lines of the company would be
completed by March 2016.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), had on Wednesday announced that the
Port Harcourt and Warri refineries had resumed full
production after the phased rehabilitation.
NNPC operates three refineries with a combined
capacity of 445,000 barrels per day (bpd). They are
the 210,000bpd Port Harcourt refinery, the
125,000bpd Warri refinery and petrochemical plant,
and the 110,00bpd Kaduna refinery and
petrochemical plant.