The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Monday, confirmed that the Kaduna Refinery has restarted after a pipeline pumping crude to the plant resumed operations.
The refinery, which has a capacity of 110,000 barrels a day, resumed, Saturday, said Ohi Alegbe, a spokesman for NNPC, who however, gave no production data.
Nigeria’s four ageing oil refineries produced nothing in October, despite a goal from the state company to produce 30 percent of its own gasoline in 2016.
Despite exporting 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, Nigeria is almost wholly reliant on imported gasoline, kerosene and other petroleum products.
