The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday announced the operational shutdownof the Port Harcourt and Kaduna Refineries owingto crude supply challenges arising from recent attacks on vital crude oil pipelines.
Ohi Alegbe, the spokesman for the NNPC said in a statement that the plants were shut simultaneously on Sunday after the Bonny-Okrikacrude supply line to the Port Harcourt Refinery and the Escravos-Warri crude supply line to the Kaduna Refinery suffered breaches.
The NNPC stated that before the closure, the PortHarcourt Refinery was recording a daily PMS yield of over 4.1 million litres while Kaduna Refinery was posting a daily petrol production of about 1.3 million litres.
The statement noted that the Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company was still on stream andproducing a little above 1.4 million Litres of petrolper day.
The Corporation however assured that it has put in place strategies to guarantee unimpeded country-wide availability of petroleum products.
“In response to the unexpected setback, we have activated comprehensive remedial measures to sustain the prevailing stability in the supply and distribution of petroleum products across the country,” the NNPC said.
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