The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday,
announced the operational shutdown of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna
Refineries owing to crude supply challenges arising from recent attacks
on vital crude oil pipelines.
In a statement by the Corporation said that 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. BOMBED—Gas pipeline in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State bombed by suspected militants.
The NNPC stated that before the closure, the Port Harcourt Refinery
was recording a daily PMS yield of over 4.1 million litres while Kaduna
Refinery was posting a daily petrol production of about 1.3 million
litres.
The statement noted that the Warri Refining and Petrochemicals
Company, WRPC is still on stream and producing a little above 1.4
million Litres of petrol per day.
The Corporation however assured that it has put in place strategies
to guarantee unimpeded country-wide availability of petroleum products.
“In response to the unexpected setback, we have activated
comprehensive remedial measures to sustain the prevailing stability in
the supply and distribution of petroleum products across the country,”
the NNPC said.
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