Kaduna Refinery Resumes Production At 60 Per cent Capacity

The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) has resumed refining of petroleum products at 60 percent installed capacity, eight months after it stopped operation.

This was disclosed by the company’s Managing Director, Engineer Saidu Mohammed.
He said the commencement of production followed a successful completion of Turn Around Maintenance of the plants by local engineers which lasted for 18 months.

Originally designed to refine 110,000 barrels of crude per day when produced at full installed capacity, the Kaduna refinery presently refines 36,000 barrels of crude per day and produces 3,083,100 litres of petrol, 1,233 litres of kerosene and 2,102.400 litres of diesel daily.

The management says the figures will increase by the time production hits 90 percent installed capacity by the first quarter of 2016.

SOURCE: CHANNELS