FG to support Dangote Refinery with crude oil feedstocks

The Federal Government says it will support the 650,000 barrels per day capacity Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals Plant with crude oil feedstock and other necessary inputs to ensure the success of the project. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, made the pledge in a statement issued by Mr Samson Makoji, the Acting […]

Dangote’s oil refinery to be completed late 2020 due to import delays

Africa’s largest oil refinery will not be finished until the end of 2020 due to problems importing steel and other equipment, executives at Dangote, which is building the facility in the Nigerian commercial hub of Lagos, told Reuters. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, imports virtually all its fuel due to sclerotic and underutilised refineries, and […]

Key infrastructure for Dangote refinery leaves China for Lagos

China’s leading energy and chemical company on Monday (July 29) announced that a completed atmospheric tower it had built was sailing for the shores of Lagos in Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria. The facility, which it described as the world’s largest is set to be installed at the Dangote Refinery, a facility owned by Africa’s richest […]