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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that the nation’s three refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri have attained a combined daily production of over 6.76 million litres of petrol per day, which is projected to increase to over 10 million litres per day by the end of January.

A statement by the NNPC, which gave a breakdown of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS, also known as petrol) yield from the plants, said that “while Port Harcourt refinery which was re-streamed a week earlier is producing some 4.09 million litres, the Kaduna refinery is contributing some 1.29 million litres and Warri which was re-streamed on Sunday is posting a yield of some 1.38 million litres.”

The corporation added that the petrol volumes from the refineries would help stabilise the fuel supply and distribution situation in the country.

Tuesday’s announcement represents some progress in recent months, seeing that the corporation said earlier that refineries produced nothing in October, forcing it to threaten to shut down non-performing refineries by December.

However, the latest figures show a decline in production capacity of Kaduna refinery, as NNPC said in December that it was producing 32.2million litres of petrol per day.