The Minister of State for Petroleum, Heineken Lokpobiri, and the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, are on a project inspection visit to the Kaduna refinery.
The duo arrived at the facility earlier in the day to inspect work progress on the ongoing quick-fix project at the refinery.
Aside from the project inspection, Lokpobiri and the Kyari are also in Kaduna for the 14th Refineries Rehabilitation Steering Committee meeting, this platform learned.
The refinery project is linked with President Bola Tinubu’s directive to the Ministry of Petroleum and NNPCL to fix the nation’s moribund refineries in order to start refining crude oil locally.
The 110,000bpd capacity Kaduna refinery is one of Nigeria’s four dysfunctional refineries that have produced no petrol for many years, leaving the country to rely heavily on imported petroleum products.
