We have delivered on priority project areas – Sylva
... it had ensured the commencement of renovation works on the refineries through the NNPC Ltd.
The Ministry of Petroleum Resources says it has delivered on all priority project areas assigned to the ministry by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said this at a Town Hall meeting with the management and staff of the ministry in Abuja.
Sylva, in a statement on Friday by Mr Enefaa Bob-Manuel, Director, Information of the ministry said among other deliveries it had ensured the commencement of renovation works on the refineries through the NNPC Ltd.
The minister said it had also ensured the commencement of Train Seven Project, driving the gas revolution and the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) coupled with its signing into the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
He said that the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission and the Midstream/Downstream Regulatory Authority were institutions established on the back of the PIA.
"Today, what we are doing is working out additional mandates, and I can assure you that in the next one and half years available to us, we will be able to deliver on additional mandates we have devised for ourselves," he said.