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Why Warri, Kaduna refineries are shut –NNPC

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Niger Delta crisis: NNPC raises fresh alarm on crude oil shortfall

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained that despite the fuel scarcity in some parts of the country, the Kaduna and Warri refineries have to remain shut.

The corporation lamented, that both refineries could not resume production at the moment because the pipeline network supplying crude oil to them had been sabotaged and were yet to be fixed.

Disclosing this in Abuja during the weekend, Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment, of the corporation, Mr. Victor Adeniran, also appealed to Nigerians to be patient, as the NNPC over the last three days, had flooded the market with petrol and that in the next few days, the queues witnessed at petrol stations would disappear.

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He however said that the Port Harcourt refinery had been reopened, about six weeks after it was shut down.

This was even as the NNPC also stated that it paid N85.96 billion into the Federation Account for the month of January 2016, despite recording a loss of N3.55 billion in the same month.

Adeniran said that as part of efforts to the fuel scarcity, special arrangement had been made for intervention trucks, with a carrying capacity of 60,000 litres of petrol.

 

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