Warri, P/ Harcourt, Kaduna Refineries Back On Stream, Says NNPC

OFFICIALS of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have ruled out any shortage of fuel supply across the country, with the coming on stream of the three major refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna.The NNPC team, led by the Group Executive Director (GED) Refining and Petrochemical, who embarked on a facility tour of the Kaduna Refining and Petrolchemical Company (KRPC), Mr. Philip Chukwu said: 'I am excited that something close to a miracle has happened' in the country with the full functioning of the three refineries' we have seen the Kaduna refinery increase production from very low level to what we have now, about three million litres of petrol daily.'Chukwu stated: 'As we speak today all the three Fluid Catalytic CrackingUnits (FCCUs) are working in the refineries. And this is the first time this has happened after about 14 years.'The managementof NNPC commends the efforts of all these refineries managements and the staff. In terms of moving forward, the rehabilitation programme is progressing. The phase we are in now is the light-on phase whereby we will embark on very small repairs, very small intervention at low cost, to fix those things that we can fix and then increase production further.'He added: 'Beyond that, we will now embark on the revamping and refurbishing phase and then finally, the upgrade where we will change those facilities that are obsolete, or where technology has improved, we will improve the technology and ensure that the refinery produces at very high capacity,'while adding that 'our target is 90 percent of installed capacity.The Managing Director of KRPC, Mr. Bolanle Ayodele, while commended the visit said: 'The Catalytic Reforming Unit (CRU), which was shut down end of November, 2011 for re-tubing of the combined feed/reactor effluent heat exchangers 12E01A/B was re-streamed on 31st of March, 2012.'He stressed: 'With the two units- FCCU and CRU in operation, our Gasoline production has improved from 1.5 ml/B to above 2.5 million litres per day.
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