BREAKING NEWS; Four Nigerian refineries – two in Port Harcourt, one in Warri and one in Kaduna – are to commence production in July after the phase maintenance is complete, the NNPC has announced.

The NNPC spokesperson, Ohi Alegbe, said the refineries are to start receiving crude oil next week.
The turnaround maintenance of the refineries begun in November 2014, with the original builders called in to do the job. However, the NNPC later had to resort to in-house engineers after the original builders “kept coming up with outrageous bills”.
The Port Harcourt refineries had to deal with lack of electricity, but the NNPC, according to Alegbe, “have now installed a mini-power plant to solve that problem”.
Restarting the refineries does not mean Nigeria will stop fuel importation.
“Even when the refineries work at full capacity, they can only produce around 19 million litres of petrol per day,” Alegbe said. With Nigeria consuming 40 million litres daily, to make up for the remaining 21 million litres, we will still have to rely on importation.
Despite being one of Africa’s top two oil producers, Nigeria is forced to import most of its petrol products due to its ailing refinery system, which generally runs well below capacity, due to neglect and pipeline sabotage.