DANGOTE Oil Refinery Company Limited
yesterday said its $9 billion refinery would
now come on stream by December 2017,
one year ahead of an earlier December 2018
deadline. The Dangote refinery, located in
Lekki, Lagos State, targets delivering
600,000 barrels of refined crude oil per day
(bpd).
The latest move to fast-track the refinery
operations’ take-off date was disclosed by
the Senior General Manager, Civil and
Structural, Mr. Madhav Kelkar, during a
facility tour of the refinery by journalists in
Lagos.
Kelkar explained that the conclusion of
preliminary works at the refinery remained
a major milestone, which was achieved in
record time, a development, he said, was
responsible for the shift in take-off date.
The refinery will produce gasoline, diesel,
aviation fuel/ household kerosene, slurry as
raw material for carbon black, as well as
750,000 mtpa of polypropylene.
According to him, the refinery is sited on
2,500 hectares of land and is also to include
a 750,000 metric tonnes of polypropylene
for the petrochemicals plant and another
fertilizer plant, which would produce 2.8
million metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) of
urea and ammonia.
He insisted that Dangote oil refinery project
is the first of its kind, having the longest
single train refinery in the world.
Kelkar disclosed that Dangote in its quest to
build an oil refinery, petrochemicals and
fertilizer plant of world-class standard
assembled a team of top-notch engineering
firms, with the largest dredging company in
the world, Jan De Nul of Belgium working on
the company’s dredging works, while Trevi
Foundations and Onshore Constructions are
working on piling.
Italian giant, Saipem, is handling
Engineering and Procurement Contract (EPC)
and Sarathy Geotech of India carrying out
soil investigation.
Recall that the United States Trade and
Development Agency (USTDA) had in August
2015, signed an agreement with Dangote
Group for a grant of $997,443 for the
training of Dangote Oil Refining Company’s
personnel, a subsidiary of the group. The
USTDA grant will fund a multi-year
programme to train over 100 Dangote
Company staff on refinery fundamentals.
Through the training, the Dangote staff will
be able to operate and maintain the
Greenfield Refinery in Lekki, Lagos.
President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko
Dangote, had said at the signing ceremony
that “just over a year ago, with our decision
to invest in a $9 billion 600,000 bpd refinery
project, we decided to address the paradox
of Nigeria being one of the world’s largest
producer and exporter of crude oil but yet
one of the largest importers of refined
products.”