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Warri Refinery has been shut down after attack

This Day (Lagos)
February 6, 2006
Posted to the web February 6, 2006
Mike Oduniyi
Lagos

Warri Refinery has been shut down after attack on an Escravos oil pipeline cut crude supply to the plant.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said that the refinery might be out of operation for three weeks to allow for the repairs of the crude pipeline, which was vandalized about three weeks ago.

NNPC officials told THISDAY last night that the management of the Warri Refinery and Petrochemicals Company (WRPC) had been running the plant before now, on crude earlier stocked since the pipeline was damaged.

"We have had to shut down the (Warri) refinery after we finally run out of crude," an official said.

"We were cut out of crude after unknown persons blew up the pipeline supplying the plant about three weeks ago. We had stocked up crude and reduced output in the refinery thinking the pipeline would be fixed before the stock is fully used up," the official added.

The plant was operating at about 75 percent before the attack on the crude supply line, officials said.

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