The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) is looking to partner with reputable and experienced Operations and Maintenance firms to oversee the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company and the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company.
The announcement was made in a statement on Friday via NNPC’s official X account.
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The Warri refinery, located in Delta State, was commissioned in 1978.
It is a complex conversion refinery with a nameplate distillation capacity of 125,000 barrels per day (bpd), equating to 6,250,000 metric tons annually (MTA).
The refinery includes a petrochemical plant, which began operations in 1988, with capacities of 13,000 MTA for polypropylene and 18,000 MTA for carbon black.
It serves the southern and southwestern markets of Nigeria.
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The Kaduna refinery, commissioned in 1980, was designed to provide petroleum products to Northern Nigeria with an initial capacity of 50,000 bpd.
This capacity was increased in 1983 to 100,000 bpd by adding a second 50,000 bpd crude train for lubricating oils.
Further expansion in 1986 raised the capacity of the first crude train to 60,000 bpd, bringing the current total nameplate capacity to 110,000 bpd.
