The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, on Wednesday, announced the completion of phase 1 of the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers State, signalling the commencement of petroleum refining.
The minister also disclosed that production of petroleum products would commence after the Christmas break.
Ripples Nigeria recalls that successive Nigerian governments had committed money into what is termed Turn Arround Maintenance (TAM) over the years with the refineries failing to work, leading the country to depend solely on importation of refined petroleum products despite billion of dollars expended on them.
