Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, on Saturday said the Federal Government had commenced a comprehensive rehabilitation of the country’s moribund refineries starting in Nigeria, with the Port Harcourt refinery.

According to Sylva, the next target under the programme, is the rehabilitation of the Warri and Kaduna refineries.

Breaking the news in an address at the 2021 convocation of the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, the Minister started that the exercise was in response to a recent approval made by the Federal Executive Council for the comprehensive rehabilitation of all the refineries in Nigeria.

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