Nigeria has restarted its northern Kaduna refinery, an official at state oil firm, NNPC told Reuters on Monday after a pipeline pumping crude to the plant resumed operations.
Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, which has the capacity to refine 110,000 barrels of crude oil a day, restarted production on Saturday after it was closed for months for repairs.
The managing director, Pipelines and Products marketing Company, Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, said on Sunday that the plant, which was closed in September, came back on stream ahead of the December deadline for Nigeria’s four refineries to return to full production.
Nigeria's four ageing oil refineries produced nothing in October, despite a goal from the state company to produce 30 per cent of its own gasoline in 2016.
Despite exporting two million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, Nigeria is almost wholly reliant on imported gasoline, kerosene and other petroleum products.
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