The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) yesterday revealed that of the 74.2 million litres per day (ml/d) of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) supplied to the domestic market in December 2025, the Dangote Refinery accounted for 32.12 ml/d.
The state-owned refineries – Warri Refinery Petrochemicals Company (WAPC) and the Kaduna Refinery Petrochemicals Company (WAPC), which remain in shut down contributed none.
This was made in the NMDPRA Factsheet titled: “State of the Midstream and Downstream December 2025,” which was released in Abuja.
According to the document, national domestic supply of petrol rose from the 71.5ML/D in November.
In the period under review national petrol consumption hit 63.7ml/d from the 52.9ml/d recorded in November.
NMDPRA revealed that PMS stock sufficiency rose to 29.20 days from the 16.64 days in the previous month.
Specifically on Dangote, the report said average capacity utilization of the 650barrels stream per day (bspd) plant in December was 62.94 per cent while its PMS performance was 64.02 per cent.
The report revealed that although the actual domestic supply planned by the plant was 50ml/d, it sent 32.12ml/d of petrol to the Nigeria’s market.
Commending the Dangote Refinery’s performance in the period under review, NMDPRA said, “Dangote Refinery shows strong capacity utilization for the month of December realizing a maximum of 71 per cent utilization.”
According to the report, Dangote also supplied an average of 5.783ml/d of the Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) to the domestic market in the month under review.
NMDPRA said the national refineries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) – PHPRC and WRPC did not record production activities in December as they remain in shut down.
“No production activities as the refinery remained on shut down mode. However, evacuation of prior AGO produced while the refinery was operational before the 24 May 2015 averaged 0.247million litres/day,” said the factsheet.
On key refinery project update, the factsheet said the Waltersmith Refinery train 2 completed, pre- commissioning hydrocarbon to be introduced by January.