Oil refineries resume production after sabotage attacks
Nigeria’s four oil
refineries were operating at between 60 and 75 per cent capacity after
production restarted last week, following closures caused by pipeline
sabotage, the state oil firm said on Wednesday.
Nigeria has two
refineries in its main oil-hub, Port Harcourt, and one each in the
Niger Delta town of Warri and in Kaduna, a city in the central region
of Africa’s most populous nation. The plants have a total capacity of
445,000 barrels per day (bpd).
“Warri is up to 75 per cent and the rest are between 60 and 70 per cent,” NNPC spokesman, Levi Ajuonoma, said.
“In another couple of weeks, we will be ramping up production. The key is pipeline security,” he added.
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