The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it supplies five million litres of Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK) consumed in the country.
The NNPC disclosed this in Abuja in a statement by Ndu Ughamadu, the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division on Sunday.
Ughamadu attributed the statement to the NNPC Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, who spoke at a two-day Investigative Public Hearing of the House of Representative Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream).
“The nation’s three refineries in Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Warri produce five million litres of kerosene daily, representing more than 60 percent of the national daily consumption requirement of eight million litres.
“The balance of three million litres of the product is being imported by private petroleum products marketers,” the statement said.
The statement said that kerosene and other petroleum products supplied by the corporation were of high quality and met safety standards.
“The NNPC ensures that the entire refining output in Nigeria through its refineries and any products imported by it to make up for market supply shortfalls meet the specifications of the Nigerian Institute of Standard and Standards Organisation of Nigeria.
“NNPC will not compromise safety and quality in its products and processes.
“All depots in the country have laboratories for quality checks to ensure safety of consumers,” the statement said.
Baru assured Nigerians that in keeping with its avowed commitment to the safety of consumers, the corporation investigated the recent incident of kerosene explosion in Calabar.
It, however, could not trace the truck that delivered the adulterated product
