TODAY December 23, 2020 The minister of state for petroleum resources, Timipre Sylva, says the refinery rehabilitation exercise across the country is in its final stages. Sylva was speaking at an interactive session with members of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the ministry of petroleum resources has completed the plant equipment inspection and integrity study conducted in December 2019 as part of phase one of the Port Harcourt refinery rehabilitation. “The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on December 1, 2020, opened bids for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the rehabilitation of the refinery,” the minister explained.