The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has said that the rehabilitation of Nigeria’s refineries is ongoing.
Sylva disclosed this on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Minister said:
“The rehabilitation of the refineries is ongoing. As we said earlier, the old refinery in Port Harcourt, which is about 60,000 barrels per day capacity, will be functional by December and, of course, we still have some time in the contracting time to conclude the rest of the Port Harcourt Refineries.
“Works in the Kaduna and Warri refineries are also in progressing very well. We will soon be embarking on an inspection visit and some of you journalists will be will be able to go with us to ascertain for yourselves what the extent of work is.”
