The nation’s pioneer crude oil refining plant, Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), has again been shut down. LEADERSHIP learnt that the plant was shut down last Friday following some operational challenges, especially at some of its strategic units. It was learnt that hitches with some major units, particularly Fluid Cracking Catalyst (FCC), regarded as heart of refining operation, Topping and Reforming units, made the shutdown of the plant inevitable. Findings showed, for instance, that Catalyst, a feedstock of FCC unit, was in short supply while there was a haulage crisis at Topping Unit (TU), whose fate was said to have impacted the Reforming Unit (RU). The latest development coincided with the vandalisation of the pipeline which conveys crude oil from the various fields of Chevron Nigeria Ltd (CNL) in Escravos to Warri and Kaduna refineries. The pipeline, known as System 2C, is reported to have been ruptured by […]