Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, who is the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has disclosed when Port Harcourt refinery will start production .
The Minister visited the plant in Alesa Eleme in Rivers State on Friday December 25, 2015.
He was there to oversee the repair work done so far but hinted that the refinery would be back to production in the next one week.
The Port Harcourt refinery has a combined production capacity of over five million litres of PMS per day and Dr. Kachukwu said that getting the nation’s refineries to work at full capacity is the way to go.
Mr Kachikwu said, the up-scaling of the nation’s refineries, ensures transparency and subsequent reduction in the importation of petroleum products that would make scarcity remain in the past.
Meanwhile, The Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company had resumed production of petrol four months after it was closed for repairs.
The Managing Director of the company, Saidu Mohammed, who disclosed this to Channels Television in Kaduna, said that the plant, which was closed in September, came back on stream ahead of the December deadline for Nigeria’s four refineries to return to full production.
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