The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Tuesday, January 5, announced that the country’s three refineries located in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri have attained a combined daily production of 6.76 million litres of petrol per day.
The state-run oil firm, in a statement by its spokesman, Ohi Alegbe, disclosed that the figure is projected to surge to over 10 million litres per day by the end of January 2016.
The statement which gave a breakdown of petrol production from the plants indicates that while Port Harcourt refinery which was re-streamed a week earlier is producing about 4.09 million litres daily, the Kaduna refinery is contributing about 1.29 million litres and Warri which was re-streamed on Sunday is adding a yield of 1.38 million litres of petrol daily.
This an improvement compared with the 1.5 million litres Kaduna refinery was producing as at Christmas day, 2015, while the Warri refinery which was then undergoing restreaming, was producing noting.
NNPC confirmed that the PMS volumes from the refineries which are currently operating at an appreciable percentage of their nameplate capacities will help stabilise the fuel supply and distribution situation in the country.
A welcome development, I hope the federal government will allow more private refineries in Nigeria. So that we can stop all this importation of a thing.