> WALL STREET JOURNAL
> March 9, 1998
> WORLD WATCH
>
> TOTAL to Help Restart Nigerian Refinery
>
> French oil giant TOTAL has big plans for oil refinery in northern
> Nigeria.  The French concern is joining with Nigerian National Petroleum
> to rehabilitate the 110,000-barrel-a-day Kaduna refinery, at an
> estimated cost of $200 million.  If all goes as planned, some units at
> the facility, which is idle, should be up and running again later this
> year,  The project is primarily geared toward improving the supply of
> petroleum products within the west central African nation.
>