The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has recently disclosed after pipeline pumping crude to the plant resumed operations, that it has restarted the northern Kaduna refinery.
According to the spokesman of the NNPC Ohi Alegbe, the refinery, which has a capacity of 110,000 barrels a day, resumed on Saturday. However, he gave no production data.
Nigeria’s four ageing oil refineries produced nothing in October, despite a goal from the state company to produce 30 percent of its own gasoline in 2016.
Despite exporting 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, Nigeria is almost wholly reliant on imported gasoline, kerosene and other petroleum products.
