BREAKING NEWS, Oil & Gas
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THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s three refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri have resumed production of Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, and Dual Purpose Kerosene, DPK, otherwise known as diesel and kerosene respectively.
The resumption of refining of AGO and DPK is expected to balance the disequilibrium in demand and supply of the white products being experienced in recent times in parts of the Country.
Speaking on the production level of the Warri refinery, Solomon Ladenegan, managing director of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, said the plant had been doing well since the crude distillation unit, CDU, was revved up on Saturday, 7 January.
Ladenegan said the refinery resumed production on Saturday, January 7, at about 10:22hrs, with the plant’s CDU functioning.
According to the refinery MD, the plant now refines 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 1 million litres of DPK and AGO. The products are there in the tank and we are doing everything to get them to the market,” Ladenegan disclosed.
On his part, Bafred Enjugu, managing director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company, PHRC, said 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 enthused that his operators were thrilled having rehabilitated the old Port Harcourt Refinery where production of AGO was being carried out by themselves without foreign expertise deployment.
According to a press release from the NNPC, the Kaduna Refinery has also roared into action, producing millions of litres of white products to ease out the situation in supply and distribution of petroleum products nationwide.
Abubakar Usman Yahaya, of Yamoyus Nigeria Ltd, an independent marketer, who was at the PHRC Depot for loading, described the refinery and the depot environment as positive, affirming that he and his co-marketers had access to PMS, AGO and DPK in sufficient quantities.
“I think this is because the refinery has started working”, Yahaya said.
Beside the products from the refineries, the NNPC has made arrangements for additional supply intervention through direct import of PMS, AGO and DPK to sustain products availability across the country.
It would be recalled that NNPC broke the jinx of end-of-year products shortage during the last Yuletide season by ensuring copious products supply across every nook and cranny of the country.
— Jan 11, 2017 @ 17:30 GMT
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