The Downstream Committee of the Nigerian Senate says the Port Harcourt refinery will begin full operations before the end of the year.
Senator Jide Ipinsagba, Vice chairman of the committee disclosed this in a statement at the weekend.
According to him refinery was already at the completion stage.
“Port Harcourt refinery today has about 90 to 95 percent optimisation in terms of retrofitting. Warri is almost about 80 percent, and Kaduna is almost about 70 percent.
“Effort is on top gear to ensure that all the refineries are functioning before the end of this year. We have done oversight of all the refineries, and we have good promises from them based on what we saw there,” he said.