Nigeria has restarted its northern Kaduna refinery, an official at state oil firm NNPC said on Monday after a pipeline pumping crude to the plant resumed operations.
The refinery, which has a capacity of 110,000 barrels a day, resumed on Saturday, said Ohi Alegbe, a spokesman for NNPC. He gave no production data.
Nigeria's
four ageing oil refineries produced nothing in October, despite a goal
from the state company to produce 30 percent of its own gasoline in
2016.
Despite exporting 2 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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