PH, Kaduna, Warri Refineries Resume Production Of Kerosene, Diesel

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Wednesday said that the Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri refineries had recommenced the production of Dual Purpose Kerosene, DPK, and Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, also known as kerosene and diesel respectively.

The NNPC, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, stating that the three refineries are currently producing about six million litres of kerosene and seven million litres of diesel on a daily basis.

According to Mr. Solomon Ladenegan, the Managing Director of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, since Saturday, January 7, 2017 after the Crude Distillation Unit, CDU was revved up on, the plant had been doing well.

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Ladenegan also confirmed the plant’s CDU functioning, saying that the plant now refine two million litres of kerosene and three million litres of diesel daily.

“This morning, we have pumped the products to PPMC and they have started loading. They are going to load up to one million litres of DPK and AGO. The products are there in the tank and we are doing everything to get them to the market, he said.

Also, Mr. Bafred Enjugu, the Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company, also acknowledged that the Port Harcourt refinery was producing three million litres of AGO daily, in addition to millions of DPK being churned out by the refinery daily.

Enjugu expressed happiness over the rehabilitated old Port Harcourt refinery where the production of AGO was being carried out by themselves without the deployment of foreign expertise.

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The NNPC also stated that the Kaduna Refinery had roared into action, producing millions of litres products to ease out the situation in supply and distribution of petroleum products nationwide.

Meanwhile, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, blamed the current scarcity and high cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, nationwide on the inability of its LPG vessel to berth and discharge its contents at the Apapa ports since December 29, 2016, due to congestion of the port facility.

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