The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has announced plans to hand over the operations and maintenance of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company to private operators.
This move aims to engage reputable and credible Operations and Maintenance (O&M) companies to manage these facilities more effectively.
The announcement was made in a statement released on Friday through NNPCL’s official handle on X.
The Warri Refinery, located in Delta State, was commissioned in 1978 and is a complex conversion refinery with a nameplate distillation capacity of 6.25 million metric tons per annum (MTA), equivalent to 125,000 barrels per day (bpd).
The refinery complex also includes a petrochemical plant commissioned in 1988, with production capacities of 13,000 MTA of polypropylene and 18,000 MTA of carbon black.
The facility primarily supplies petroleum products to markets in the southern and southwestern regions of Nigeria.
Similarly, the Kaduna Refinery was commissioned in 1980 to cater to the petroleum needs of Northern Nigeria, with an initial capacity of 50,000 barrels per day (B/D).
In 1983, a second crude train was added, doubling the capacity to 100,000 B/D, dedicated to producing lubricating oils.
Further expansion in 1986 increased the capacity of the first crude train to 60,000 B/D, bringing the total nameplate capacity of the refinery to 110,000 B/D.
