Afrigather On Thursday, the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted introduced its dedication to produce six million barrels of crude oil to the Dangote Refinery. This transfer is available in response to latest issues over crude oil shortages affecting the refinery’s operations, with the Federal Authorities acknowledging the difficulty of low oil manufacturing because the trigger.
In response to the report, sources on the NNPCL acknowledged that the oil agency was set to ship six million barrels of crude oil to the refinery in December.
A high official of the oil agency, who needs to stay nameless acknowledged.“In a serious step in direction of boosting home refining and attaining power safety, NNPC Ltd is ready to allocate six million barrels of crude oil to Dangote Refinery in December 2023.”
The official added “This growth got here as plans have since been firmed up for the signing of a gross sales and buy Settlement between the nationwide oil firm and the refinery, going down quickly in Abuja.”
In the meantime, people with information of the matter from each events affirmed that the settlement was totally industrial and didn’t contain any reductions or promoting at exceptionally low costs, opposite to some media speculations.
In accordance with Part 109 of the Petroleum Business Act (2021) outlines the home crude oil provide obligations to varied refineries, together with the Dangote Refinery, NNPCL refineries positioned in Port-Harcourt, Warri, Kaduna, and modular refineries.
This part additionally emphasizes that the availability of crude oil to the home market ought to be carried out voluntarily between keen patrons and keen suppliers. NPCL has already acquired an fairness stake within the Dangote Refinery and is ready to begin the availability of crude oil to this facility.
Why Dangote refinery didn’t meet its October manufacturing goal
The shortage of crude oil provide to home refineries, together with the numerous Dangote Refinery, had triggered a delay within the manufacturing of refined petroleum merchandise at these institutions. Notably, the Dangote Refinery, with a manufacturing capability of 650,000 barrels per day in Lagos, fell wanting its October manufacturing goal, elevating issues in 2023 relating to the top of petroleum importation in Nigeria.
Nonetheless, the delay in commencing manufacturing signifies that Nigeria will proceed to depend upon gas imports till NNPCL initiates the availability of crude oil to the plant in December this 12 months.
This example displays the problem of crude oil scarcity at home refineries amid Nigeria’s ongoing imports of refined petroleum merchandise. Business sources have indicated that roughly 5 further modular refineries are ready to provoke the manufacturing of refined petroleum merchandise.
Nonetheless, these refineries have been unable to begin manufacturing because of the shortage of crude oil. Moreover, it has been reported by trade sources that the Dangote Refinery positioned in Lekki, Lagos, has not but obtained the mandatory portions of crude oil required for the manufacturing of refined merchandise.
