Kaduna Refinery’s Renovation Will Be Completed By 2024, Says Minister

Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, declared that the Kaduna Refinery’s restoration would be finished by the end of 2024.

He revealed this information on Saturday while leading a tour of the refinery for inspection. He also reaffirmed the federal government’s pledge to revive the country’s refineries in order to stop importing petroleum products.

One of Nigeria’s four malfunctioning refineries, with a capacity of 110,000 bpd, is the Kaduna Refinery. It has not produced gasoline in many years, forcing the nation to rely largely on petroleum imports.

However, a contract for the refinery’s rehabilitation was signed in February 2023 between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and Daewoo Engineering and Construction Nigeria Limited, a Korean company.

In order to evaluate the state of the continuing rehabilitation work under the quick-fix project, the minister of state for petroleum resources paid a visit to the refinery on Saturday.

Mele Kyari, the chief executive officer of the NNPCL Group, along with other senior ministry officials accompanied the minister.

The minister and his group were given a tour of the Kaduna Refinery by Mustapha Sugungun, the Managing Director.

Official sources state that the refinery last underwent turnaround maintenance approximately 15 years ago.

However, with the progress made so far by the contractor handling the rehabilitation work, the petroleum minister was optimistic that the refinery will come back to life by end of 2024. This optimism was also shared by the NNPCL boss.