Kaduna Refinery Shutdown Following Attacks On Oil Installations

The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) has stopped production renewed attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. Some of the attacks have been claimed by a group which calls itself the Niger Delta Avengers

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Reports indicate that the Kaduna refinery stopped production last week Tuesday as a result of lack of crude oil.

A Nigerian newspaper quoted an official of the refinery as saying “we have shut down production for now. We do not have crude supply, am sure it is due to the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta region.”

“We will resume production as soon as we started getting crude supply from the Niger Delta. We are ready and our equipment are functional, the only problem now is the crude,” said our source.

The Kaduna Refinery only resumed production in the last week in April alongside three other Nigerian refineries.