LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-All may not be well with Nigeria oil industry at the moment as information has it that Warri refinery has been shuts down.
Urhobotoday learnt that the refiney was shut down because the refinery it not evacuate Diesel and LPFO sold to Vitol Group and other marketers.
It would be recalled that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
It was noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.