Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration in Ogun State, yesterday, took a major step in making the state an oil producing one, as a firm, Gasoline Integrated International, expressed its readiness to build a N3b refinery in Tongeji Island, Ipokia Council of the state.
A statement issued in Abeokuta by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, said the refinery, when completed, would be refining 400,000 litres of crude oil into petrol per day.
The chairman of the company, Dr. Lukman Bolaji, who disclosed this when he led the company’s directors on a courtesy call on the governor, Governor Abiodun in his office at Oke-Mosan Abeokuta, noted that the firm is into upstream and mainstream and had acquired an oil block at Tongeji Island.
The refinery, he explained, would be located at Ipokia and would refine 100,000 litres per day and other petroleum products at the beginning, and later expand to 400,000 litres per day in the future. He said that the project would sit on 800 hectares of land that had already been acquired.
“We are bringing in a capital inflow
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