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75% of Fuel in Nigeria Will Still Be Imported in 2016 - NNPC

Group Managing Director NNPC and Minister of State for Petroleum , Dr. Ibe Kachikwu , during his tour of Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, KRPC , yesterday, said the country will still rely on 75 per cent importation of fuel throughout the whole of next year. According to him: “The future is that, Nigeria is still going to import fuel in 2016 and beyond. Best case situation is 25 per cent local and 75 per cent importation. Worse case is what we are experiencing now. “Until we begin to get individuals who can co-relocate, we are going to be doing a mixture of local and importation of fuel to meet up demands. In the next few weeks, however, queues will disappear in fuel stations.”The minister said that the Kaduna refinery will soon be producing more than two million litres per day capacity as soon as an Fluid Catalytic Cracking, FCC, unit is fully on stream. He said: “We need to get it back to re-kit it to work well. We will do that with some level of pr...