POST ON BACKGROUND OF FUEL SCARCITY WRITE-UP #2

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The militant in the niger-delta has also affected the fuel production in nigeria.

FUEL SUBSIDY
The type of equipment being used for oil processing in distance from the refinery to the end uses.

• Oil bunkering: Taking oil that is supposed to be used by everybody.
• Oil diversion: Taking the fuel of a country to another country to sell it in high price.

THE ATTITUDE OF OIL DEALERS

• Policy of the government in deregulation, dependence on importation.
• Too much reliance on petrol in our automobiles.
• Reduction in the number of mega station in nigeria.

THE AMOUNT OF PETROL PRODUCED IN THE COUNTRY BELOW PER DAY

• Refinery in india = 1.24billion barrel per day.
• South korea = 730,000 barrel per day.
• Egypt = 1,102,550 barrel per day.
• South africa = 626,500 barrel per day.
• lybia = 380,000 barrel per day.

A modular refinery is a small refinery.

• Warri refinery produces 125,000 barrel per day.

• Kaduna refinery produces 110,000 barrel per day.

• Port-harcourt refinery produces 210,000 barrel per day.
  So they produces 445,000 barrels per day in the total to get litre perbarrel = 70,750,000/445,000 = 158.9, convert = 159litre/barrel.

• India has the largest refinery in the worlds.

• Jamaica refinery in india has a store capacity of 1,240,000 barrels per day.

• Venezuela refinery produces 940,000 barrels per day.

• South korea's yeosu refinery produces 730,000 barrels per day.

• Egypt has 9 refineries and produces 732,500 barrels per day.

• South africa has 6 refineries and produces 625,500 barrels per day.

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