Nigeria and Niger Republic have been urged to fast track the construction of the Katsina Refinery to improve economic relations between the two nations.

In an interview with Voice of Nigeria, the Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari said that the refinery, when completed would accelerate economic activities of the border state, and provide job opportunities to the people.

Governor Masari said the state government had allocated a suitable location in Mani and Mashi local governments, where the refinery would be situated and offered to provide security to protect the installations.

The agreement for the construction of the refinery between Nigeria and Niger, signed a year ago, includes China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which holds eighty percent of the proven oil reserve and the operating permit handling the project.

Governor Aminu Masari told Voice of Nigeria in Katsina that the proposed refinery would utilize the projected 5,000 barrels per day, crude oil from Niger Republic to provide the needed energy for the state and its neighbors.

The agreement signed between Niger and Nigeria provides for the export of crude oil from the Agadem Rift Basin of South East Niger to Nigeria, called the Niger-Nigeria export project.

The MoU followed the upstream approval granted by the Niger government to the Chinese oil company for the Agadem PSC exclusive exploration area 3, the production area expected to feed the Katsina refinery.

The Memorandum of Understanding also provides for the construction of an export pipeline from the Agadem Rift Basin (ARM) to the proposed new refinery in Katsina State.

The refinery project also has the buy-in of Savannah Petroleum PLC, the British independent oil and gas company focused on activities in Niger and Nigeria.

The Savannah Petroleum Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Andrew Knott said: “We expect the Niger-Nigeria export project to provide one of the potential routes to market for Savannah’s existing and future discoveries in Niger.’’

It’s expected that delays basically caused by the stand of the China National Petroleum Corporation, CNPC, on the need to agree to the Nigerien project rather than that proposed on the Benin republic route, would be finalized soon.

The Nigerien Minister of Petroleum, Mr. Foumakoye Gado, said last year, that ” to run a pipeline from Agadem to Benin Republic seaport is like 2080km which will be very costly compared to Agadem-Katsina which is just 120 to 150 km.’’

Also speaking, Head of the joint technical team for the Katsina refinery project, Mr. Rabiu Suleiman said: “We are discussing on how the Chinese can withdraw from the understanding they have with BeninRepublic without litigation and come back to Nigeria and dedicate crude oil for Nigeria.’’


Source: https://www.von.gov.ng/nigeria-niger-urged-to-fast-track-construction-of-katsina-refinery/

Awol1:
Lol...

Who is urging them?

All I see is Buhari trying to unite his brothers in Niger and Northern Nigeria.

Just like he has always done when he supported a Fulani Nigerien to become the Common Wealth Secretary General over an Igbo man.

Buhari... We will survive you and your kinds.

GavelSlam:


They've told you this lie for so long that it has become the truth.

Just like Chinese whispers, it has become so convoluted you have begun to call it the Commonwealth.

Adayi1:

What I don't understand is Niger Republic is a French colony before their independence. So, how are they commonwealth nation? Help me ask them

Lol.

GavelSlam:


Onu was never on the ballot be because you get nominated by your president.

Onu held the position in the interim prior to this.

Also, the big nations never contested for the post because they did not want to exert undue influence over smaller nations.

Lastly Ide Oumarou is not Fulani, he is Zarma.

obailala:
The refinery in Katsina is private. And due to it's location, it's more economically sensible to feed it with oil from Nigerien fields.

cc: tactius, koolbe, orisa37, Afonjacow

AFONJACOW:
and where are they going to get oil they are going to refine there, hope not from Niger Delta , or are they going to refine groundnut oil in that refinery because we all know north as oil barren desert

germanized:


You no get sense ooo. Even though I dey always yab Buhari, I respect am for this one wey him do.

Person dey try fap Niger Republic for Nigeria's benefit, you still dey blame am. Jonathan and dem Dieziani plus all other militants wey chop finish come sh!t for plate, wetin dem achieve?

No make me vex ooo... If I vex, I go start to speak bini language, even though I no sabi the language.

GavelSlam:


Onu was never on the ballot be because you get nominated by your president.

Onu held the position in the interim prior to this.

Also, the big nations never contested for the post because they did not want to exert undue influence over smaller nations.

Lastly Ide Oumarou is not Fulani, he is Zarma.

PrecisionFx:


U mean buhari didn't nominate onu?

AFONJACOW:
and where are they going to get oil they are going to refine there, hope not from Niger Delta , or are they going to refine groundnut oil in that refinery because we all know north as oil barren desert

GavelSlam:


That's fine.

I'm always away from the country and I haven't had time to rummage through my old man's library.

When I get the chance, I'm sure I would find old magazines that chronicled happenings of the time.

We all learn.

tactius:


Here is a UPI report from 1985...

obailala:
Don't let petty ethnic hatred kill you.

The oil from the Niger delta is being sold on a daily basis to unknown companies and refineries in India, europe and other parts of the world; you have absolutely no problem with that. But now, a Nigerian sets up a private refinery in Katsina and you are already swearing and protesting that Niger Delta crude should not be sold to them simply BECAUSE THEY ARE FELLOW BLACK NIGERIANS... The black man truly has a serious problem. I have problem with the Gold they have been mining since ages been keeping the proceed alone, North should face their solids mineral resources while south do whatever pleases them with their oil, enough of stealing from peter to service Paul, Buhari led government has waste over $2b looking for crude in oil barren desert, very soon they will come up with another conspiracy theory how oil in north flows to north ,therefore everything in Niger Delta is their own

Like I said before, may your ethnic hatred not kill you!

...and by the way, the ethnic hatred is already muddling your focus, the title and body of the report clearly states that the crude will be piped from nearby oilfields in Niger.

tactius:


The oil would be piped from Niger

Niger has an oil field near Zinder

Awol1:


You got to be kidding me.

Not everyone argues blindly.

And why would I have to settle for international observation, what happened to being Nigerian president?

Or is that a northern birthright?

GavelSlam:


First off, the story is about the Organisation of African Unity - OAU and not the commonwealth which you have wrongly stated from the get go.

Secondly, Onu was to hold the position in the interim whilst a resolution was sought as the candidates from Mali and Gabon couldn't compromise.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/13/world/african-unity-organization-ends-its-summit-gathering-in-disunity.html

Awol1:


Whether Onu was to hold the position for a day, does that justify Buhari voting for a Fulani from Niger over his countryman of Igbo extraction?

Awol1:


Well Gavel, I must admit I have actually acted and argued based on the little beer parlour information I've had about what transpired then.

If I term myself educated, I should mellow to superior facts until more superior facts emerge.

So, fallibilistically, I'm gonna take your side of the story for now while I take time to verify what truly happened at the time.

Awol1:


They will always paint the picture of its good side.

Look beyond the ephemeral and read the lines.

Are we done reviving our moribund refineries?

Why would we have to team up with Niger Republic to build a whole new refinery while that fund would have been channeled into making our existing refineries work? What God Jesus Christ ? Jesus can never give u brain,only God can. God can never be Jesus because God never goes to toilet to shitt as Jesus humbly does,God can never have anus and penix my brother u are wasting ur time. Jesus was a prophet an important high class prophet but never a God or his son.Reply to ur own palava because I quit reading as any reply on this igbo platform called nairaland

Stop letting these jihadists think for you.

Learn to use your God given brain for what it's meant for.

Awol1:


They will always paint the picture of its good side.

Look beyond the ephemeral and read the lines.

Are we done reviving our moribund refineries?

Why would we have to team up with Niger Republic to build a whole new refinery while that fund would have been channeled into making our existing refineries work? What God Jesus Christ ? Jesus can never give u brain,only God can. God can never be Jesus because God never goes to toilet to shitt as Jesus humbly does,God can never have anus and penix my brother u are wasting ur time. Jesus was a prophet an important high class prophet but never a God or his son.Reply to ur own palava because I quit reading as any reply on this igbo platform called nairaland or whatever

Stop letting these jihadists think for you.

Learn to use your God given brain for what it's meant for.