Buhari blazed trail in modular refinery delivery — Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, said while previous administrations talked about modular refineries, only President Muhammadu Buhari’s government ensured their establishment.

Addressing newsmen after inspection of the facilities at the project site, Mohammed said that the Buhari administration is genuinely encouraging reintegration in the oil and gas sector to make their end products cheaply available locally, create employment and end crude oil exportation. “Having listened and followed the presentations, I am extremely proud to be a Nigerian, especially when the chairman told us that from the board to the cleaner of this company, there is no single non-Nigerian.“No longer are we going to have resources and be exporting them without making use of the resources by the process of adding value to it,” the minister said.

He added that besides the fact that production would be more than local consumption, the medium scale industry in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry would grow. ‘The first phase of 5000 bpd production is a good starting point and we hope that by 2022 they will get an improvement of the refined capacity of 25,000 bpd and by 2024, it is projected to have increased to 30000 bpd.

He equally commended Waltersmith for its resilience and ingenuity in turning the area to a business hub within few years, building a 15-kilometre road and a trailer park as well as improving the economy of the host communities.

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