The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva says the modular refinery programme to boost local production of crude oil in the country is on course.
Sylva who announced this in an interview with Newsmen in Abuja said that Federal Government had licensed a good number of modular refineries and some of them had already started operating effectively.
The Minister noted that the WalterSmith Petrochemical Refining Company with 5000 barrels per day are currently producing very comfortable and had no problems.
The Department of Petroleum Resources DPR said Federal government had as at March 2021 licensed about 23 refineries in the country
The 23 refineries, waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical company had completed construction and has been commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari, OPAC refinery has completed Construction and Plant at Commissioning Stage while Niger Delta Petroleum Resources has also completed Construction completed and Commissioning ongoing.
