Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemicals Restarts Production

The Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, owner of the Kaduna refinery, a facility which has the capacity to refine 110 000 bpd of crude oil, recently restarted production after it was closed for four months for repairs.

The Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, said that the plant had come back on stream ahead of the December deadline for Nigeria’s four refineries to return to full production.

Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue said that the Kaduna plant, which is currently undergoing a test run of its production lines, is expected to start trucking petrol by the last week of December 2015.

Kaduna Electric To Begin Deployment of Smart Meters

Kaduna Electric has said that it will, from next week, begin the deployment of hi-tech smart energy meters for electricity users within its franchise area as part of plans to ensure the metering of all customers and gradually phase out estimated billing, Leadership reports.

The company’s head, Energy Meters and New Connections, Mr Aliyu Abbas Abdullahi, disclosed this at the opening session of a five-day training programme jointly organised by the company and Elsewedy Electric of Egypt for metering engineers and installers in Kaduna.

Abdullahi announced that the first consignment of about 100,000 meters ordered by Kaduna Electric has arrived the country, hence the training to properly equip the company’s meter engineers and installers with the necessary and requisite knowledge on the installation, maintenance, and operations of the meters.

Source: Energy Mix Report