AS
hopes rise that Nigeria’s refineries may come on stream by December, details
are emerging that the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) may not
be among them, and may even need to be ‘scrapped.’
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| Dr. Emmanuel Egbogah |
Chief
among the reasons, The Guardian learnt, is because the refinery would not meet
expected parameters of operation should it depend on feed-stock from the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
It
was also learnt that the KRPC runs on ‘obsolete analogue technology and is not
fit to refine Nigeria’s light crude,’ as against what obtains at Warri and Port
Harcourt refineries, both of which operate advanced refining technologies.
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