NDEP set to inaugurate 11,000bpd refinery The Punch Published 8 July 2021 The Niger Delta Exploration & Production Plc, an independent integrated energy company, has said its refinery, with a processing capacity of 11,000 barrels per day, will be inaugurated soon. The company also announced the Department of Petroleum Resources’ approval for the introduction of hydrocarbon to the Train 3 of its Ogbele refinery. Niger Delta Petroleum Resources, a subsidiary of NDEP, had in 2010 inaugurated a 1,000bpd mini refinery for the extraction of diesel from crude oil produced from the Ogbele field. The Chairman of NDEP, Mr Ladi Jadesimi, was quoted in a statement as saying that this would make the full-fledged refinery ‘the first of such privately owned and operated in Nigeria’.