In what appears a major shift from previous clam by the ?angote Refinery company, the Group Chief Strategy Officer, ?angote Refinery and Petrochemicals Company, Aliyu Suleiman, on Wednesday, stated that 60 percent of the crude supplied to the refinery was done by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL).
Aliyu made the submission during an interactive session organised by the Senate Ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged sabotage in the Nigerian petroleum industry.
This supersedes the position of the ?angote Industries Limited Group’s Chief Commercial Officer, Rabiu A. Umar, who had claimed that the NNPCL has been supplying insufficient crude oil for its production demand, while speaking recently with newsmen in Kano.
Umar had said that NNPC supplies only 33 percent of crude to the refinery, further disclosing that it had to look elsewhere to source the remaining 67% to meet its production capacity. He added that the refinery, which has the capacity of refining 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) could not depend on short supply from Nigeria’s oil company.
However, during his presentation, Aliyu Suleiman stated that out of the five million barrels of crude oil they got in recent time, NNPC gave them 60%, saying 20% was imported and 20% was purchased.
Concluding , Aliyu expressed gratitude for the strong partnership between the ?angote Refinery and the NNPC Ltd, and for making the huge supply to ?angote.
He described the refinery as a baby that should be supported by all relevant stakeholders in order to grow and not die.
