Kaduna Refinery Production Capacity Increases To 60%

Kaduna Refinery production capacity has been increased to 60 per cent after recent repairs, a top management official of the refinery has said. 

Efforts to push production capacity to between 80 to 90 per cent before the second quarter of 2016, the Managing Director of the Kaduna Refinery and Petro-Chemical Company, Saidu Mohammed, said are in place.

Mr Mohammed who noted that the company had put together a plan for a four-phase rehabilitation, had completed the second phase of the four. 

The plant is producing about 1.6 million liters of Premium Motor Spirit daily at 60 per cent production capacity, The Kaduna refinery is a three-in-one plant operation – The fuel plant, which refines Nigerian crude, the Loops Plant which refines imported crude and the alkaline basin plant.