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TOP 5 REFINERIES IN NIGERIA
Nigeria has five refineries. The federal government owns four through its controlling stake in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.
Nigeria has five refineries. The federal government owns four through its controlling stake in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The NNPC is responsible for regulating and developing the oil and gas sector.
The fifth refinery is managed by the Niger Delta Petroleum Resources, a subsidiary of Niger Delta Exploration and Production Plc, a company that invests in oil and gas.
Of the government-owned refineries, three are in the Niger Delta region – two in Port Harcourt and one in Warri – and one is in Kaduna.
Below are the 5 Refineries in Nigeria
PORT HARCOURT REFINERY
The Port Harcourt refinery, 210,000 barrels per day complex conversion plant is operated by the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The PHRC is made up of two refineries located at Alesa-Eleme, RiversState. The old refinery has a refining nameplate capacity of 60,000 barrels per day and was commissioned in 1965, while the new plant with a nameplate capacity of 150,000 barrels per day was commissioned in 1989.
The plant utilizes bonny light crude oil to produce Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), premium motor spirit (PMS), Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) and High Pour Fuel Oil (HPFO).
WARRI REFINERY
The Warri refinery was commissioned in 1978 with a refining capacity of 100,000 barrels a day. This was later upgraded to 125,000 barrels in 1987.
The refinery is located at Ekpan, Warri, DeltaState, and it is operated by the Warri Refining & Petrochemicals Company (WRPC) Limited, an NNPC subsidiary. The refinery was installed as a complex conversion plant capable of producing Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), and Fuel Oil from a blend of Escravos and Ughelli crude oils’.
WRPC has a petrochemical plant complex that produces Polyproylene, and carbon black from the propylene-rich feedstock and decant oil from the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU).
KADUNA REFINERY
The Kaduna refinery, in the northwest, was commissioned in 1983 with a daily refining capacity of 110,000 barrels. In 1988 it was fitted with a 30,000 tonnes-per-year capacity petrochemical plant that makes chemicals used in detergents.
The Kaduna refinery has a nameplate refining capacity of 110,000 barrels per day and is located in Kaduna, KadunaState. The plant is run by the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals (KRPC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and has a complex conversion configuration.
NIGER DELTA REFINERY
The NDPR refinery is a 1,000 barrels per day topping plant located at Ogbelle, RiversState.
The plant receives crude oil from the flow station operated by its upstream affiliate, the Niger Delta Exploration and Production (NDEP) Company, within its marginal field.
The plant is targeted at the production of diesel for its internal consumption and the excess is sold to immediate locality.
INDORAMA ELEME PETROCHEMICALS COMPANY
The Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (IEPL), formerly known as Eleme petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) was acquired in 2006 from the NNPC during the privatization program by Indorama as the Core investors.
The complex is located at Eleme, Rivers State, and has 22,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) Butene-1, 270,000 TPA Polyethylene, and 80,000 TPA Polypropylene plants that process natural gas liquids (NGL) from Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and propylene-rich feed from Port Harcourt refinery to produce a range of Polyethylene and Polypropylene products.