The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, has on Thursday revealed that Kaduna Refinery will resume
the production of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS (petrol), within the next three
months.
This was made known in a statement by the Group
Managing Director of the corporation, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja.
According to him, the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit,
FCCU, and the fuel section of the refinery would be brought back to life within
this period to ensure that Nigerians continue to enjoy uninterrupted supply of
petroleum products.
Kachikwu, who stated this during a facility tour of
the Kaduna Refining Petrochemical Company, KRPC, said the refinery will get a
turn around that will make it commercially sustainable.
He said: “All
the component units of the refinery, including the FCCU and the fuel section,
will be fully rehabilitated for resumption of crude supply to the plant.
“You
will soon have a different company; we must do all it takes to make this
company a success.”
He stressed the need for the establishment of more
refineries, especially in view of the low refining capacity of the country,
adding that NNPC is planning to build additional refineries.
He said: “I
am pushing to build new refineries next to our existing plants to boost the
nation’s refining capacity for the common good.
“The
new refineries will be developed by private investors and NNPC’s role will be
just to provide them with space close to the existing refineries to enable them
share key facilities such as pipelines and storage facilities.”
This was even as NNPC stated that it had lifted the
embargo earlier placed on 113 vessels, banning them from engaging in crude oil
and gas loading activities in any of the terminals within Nigerian territorial
waters.
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