The Managing Director, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), Saidu Mohammed, on Thursday, August 13, 2015, said that the outfit has resumed refining of petroleum products at 60 per cent installed capacity.
This is coming eight months after it stopped operation.
Explained that the commencement of production followed a successful completion of Turn-Around Maintenance of the plants by local engineers which lasted for 18 months.
The last time the plants operated was in January 2015, after which they were shut down.
Originally designed to refine 110,000 barrels of crude per day when produced at full installed capacity, the Kaduna refinery presently refines 36,000 barrels of crude per day and produces 3,083,100 litres of petrol, 1,233 litres of kerosene and 2,102.400 litres of diesel daily.
