The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation( NNPC) has 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.
This is contained in a statement signed
by Mr Ohi Alegbe Group General
Manager, Group Public Affairs Division,
on Wednesday in Abuja.
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.
It stated that before the closure, the Port
Harcourt Refinery was recording a daily
Premium Motor Spirit (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) was still on stream and
producing a little above 1.4 million Litres
of petrol per day.
It, however, assured that it had 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 statement said.
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