• facts about oil refinery – a knowledge archive in Lagos
  • facts about oil refinery – a knowledge archive in Lagos
  • facts about oil refinery – a knowledge archive in Lagos
  • facts about oil refinery – a knowledge archive in Lagos
  • How to set up a crude oil refinery in Nigeria?
  • Establishing a crude oil refinery in Nigeria requires approval from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the petroleum regulatory organization in Nigeria. Below are the approval processes you are expected to follow if you are looking towards obtaining the required license to legally run a mini – crude oil refinery;
  • How many oil refineries does Nigeria have?
  • Nigeria has four oil refineries: two in Port Harcourt, one in Warri, and one in Kaduna. These refineries have a combined crude oil distillation capacity of 445,000 bbl/d. Despite holding Africa's largest oil reserves, Nigeria imports almost all of its refined petroleum products due to low capacity utilization rates and security problems at its refineries.
  • What happened at a Nigerian oil refinery?
  • Damaged cars are seen following a blast at a Nigerian oil refinery on April 23, 2022, in this photo released by the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. Women and children are among the scores of people killed in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in a border town in southern Nigeria, authorities say.
  • Are Nigeria's oil refineries resuscitated?
  • Nigeria’s beleaguered oil refineries have again dominated the headlines after hundreds of billions of naira were allocated to repair one. But this is only the latest attempt at resuscitating them. So what ails them?
  • How many refineries are in the Niger Delta?
  • 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. The Port Harcourt refineries have a combined refining capacity of 210,000 barrels a day, comprising a 60,000-barrels-a-day plant commissioned in 1965, and a 150,000-barrels-a-day plant commissioned in 1989.
  • Did Nigeria sign a billion-dollar deal to revamp its oil refinery?
  • You might expect news that Nigeria had signed a billion-dollar deal to revamp a major refinery to be widely hailed, more so when you consider Africa’s largest oil producer imports almost all of its fuel. The country’s chronically underperforming refineries have been shut down for more than a year now as authorities figure out how to fix them.