# 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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- Published: 2026-10-13T11:57:09+00:00
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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.

## Data

### Announced crude-processing target for SORAZ

The figures are the current and targeted daily processing rates reported by ANP among the committee's assignments.

Methodology: 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.

| Refinery | Rate status | Processing rate (million barrels per day) |
|---|---|---|
| SORAZ | Current rate reported by ANP | 0.015 |
| SORAZ | Target assigned to the committee | 0.02 |

Sources: <https://anp.ne/niger-installation-dun-comite-technique-de-gestion-des-crises-dapprovisionnement-en-produits-petroliers-et-de-lapurement-de-la-dette-croisee/> · Download data: [JSON](https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/niger-petroleum-supply-and-debt-committee-sets-refinery-targets/data/soraz-throughput-plan?lang=en&format=json) · [CSV](https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/niger-petroleum-supply-and-debt-committee-sets-refinery-targets/data/soraz-throughput-plan?lang=en&format=csv)

### Petroleum committee planning targets

Assigned debt, supply and security-reserve planning durations.

Methodology: 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.

| Debt-clearance plan horizon | Supply programme horizon | Security-reserve duration target |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 30 | 45 |

Sources: <https://anp.ne/niger-installation-dun-comite-technique-de-gestion-des-crises-dapprovisionnement-en-produits-petroliers-et-de-lapurement-de-la-dette-croisee/> · Download data: [JSON](https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/niger-petroleum-supply-and-debt-committee-sets-refinery-targets/data/petroleum-committee-planning-horizons?lang=en&format=json) · [CSV](https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/niger-petroleum-supply-and-debt-committee-sets-refinery-targets/data/petroleum-committee-planning-horizons?lang=en&format=csv)

## Sources

- [Agence Nigérienne de Presse](<https://anp.ne/niger-installation-dun-comite-technique-de-gestion-des-crises-dapprovisionnement-en-produits-petroliers-et-de-lapurement-de-la-dette-croisee/>) (Source checked: 2026-10-13; Published: 2026-10-13)
- [Agence Nigérienne de Presse, earlier committee-creation announcement (background)](<https://anp.ne/niger-le-gouvernement-annonce-des-mesures-pour-securiser-lapprovisionnement-en-produits-petroliers-et-prevenir-les-difficultes-alimentaires/>) (Source checked: 2026-10-13; Published: 2026-10-09)

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