Niger details petroleum committee’s debt and refinery targets
At a 12 October meeting chaired by the prime minister, a committee was tasked with preparing a three-month plan to clear cross-debts in the petroleum chain and raising SORAZ’s daily processing rate.
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Niger’s government said on 9 October that it had established a technical committee on petroleum supply. Prime Minister Mahaman Ali Lamine Zeine chaired the committee’s installation meeting on 12 October; details published by the Nigerien Press Agency on 13 October assign it duties to maintain fuel availability, strengthen output at the SORAZ refinery and work to clear cross-debts within three months.
The committee was assigned to coordinate with China National Petroleum Corporation Niger Petroleum on raising SORAZ’s crude-processing rate from 15,000 to 20,000 barrels a day. The report also lists daily stock and delivery monitoring, a 30-day supply plan revised weekly, and consideration of new depots to raise security reserves to 45 days. These are planning targets and duties assigned to the committee; the report does not say they have been achieved.
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Announced crude-processing target for SORAZ
The figures are the current and targeted daily processing rates reported by ANP among the committee's assignments.
| SORAZ | Current rate reported by ANP | 0.015 |
| SORAZ | Target assigned to the committee | 0.02 |
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ANP reports a current rate of 15,000 barrels per day and a target of 20,000 barrels per day; these are expressed in the registered million-barrels-per-day unit. The target is not treated as achieved output. 15,000 and 20,000 barrels/day are divided by 1,000,000 to express 0.015 and 0.020 million barrels/day.
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Petroleum committee planning targets
Assigned debt, supply and security-reserve planning durations.
| 3 | 30 | 45 |
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Durations are stated assignments in the 13 October ANP report: three months for the debt-clearance plan, 30 days of supply programming and a 45-day security-reserve target. No achievement or exact completion date is inferred.
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