State-owned oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,NNPC, on Wednesday, February 10, announced that the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, in Kaduna State has resumed production, supplying 3.2 million litres of premium motor spirit (petrol) to the Nigerian market.
The KRPC, alongside the two other refineries in the country, Warri and Port Harcourt, has been moribund for years, going through a seemingly endless “turn-around maintenance” that allegedly served as a cash cow for corrupt government officials and contractors while the majority of Nigerians were left at the mercy of fuel importers and marketers.
The NNPC declared on its website that the Kaduna Refinery commenced production over the weekend with an initial PMS yield of about 1.5 million litres, which has been raised to 3.2 million litres for the domestic market.
“The injection of this volume into the system will significantly impact ongoing special intervention efforts designed to bring relief to motorists across the country,” the Corporation stated.
