The Managing Director of the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), Eng. Sa’idu Mohammed has revealed that the company has resumed refining of crude oil at 60 percent installed capacity.
This is coming eight months after the company stopped operation, thus saving the nation $3.071 million daily expended on fuel imports.
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The plant presently refines 36, 000 barrels of crude daily and produces 3,083,100 litres of petrol, 1,233 litres of kerosene and 2,102.400 litres of diesel daily, he said.
This feat was achieved after a successful completion of Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the plants by local engineers, which lasted for 18 months.
The last time the plants operated was in January 2015. Mohammed says the figures will increase by the time production hits 90 percent installed capacity by the first quarter of 2016.
Nigeria currently imports 50 per cent of petroleum products into the country as part of the 40 million litres daily consumption
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