Having completed the rehabilitation of the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has started rehabilitation on the pipelines that supply crude oil to the refinery.     

According to The Nation, the repairs started early this year but the oil giant did not want to make noise about it to avoid another vandalism of the asset.

Reports say the Corporation’s plan is to bring all the refineries on stream before end of this month, having completed their rehabilitation but the challenge it has is how to supply crude to Kaduna.

The pipeline was vandalised in 2010 and couldn’t be repaired because of continual attacks by vandals stalling crude supply to the refinery, a source at the NNPC said.

Although the source didn’t want to disclose the cost of the repairs, he noted that the project is expected to be completed very soon so that productions from the three refineries in the country will meet substantial percentage of the national fuel needs.