Dangote Group has announced the date for the launch of its much-awaited refineries.
A letter of invitation obtained indicated that the commissioning would happen on May 22, 2023.
The multi-billion-dollar Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Company is expected to bring solutions to Nigeria’s perennial refining issues.
This could help the federal government’s efforts to make the country self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products.
Dangote Refinery, which is the world’s largest single-train refinery, will produce as much as 650,000 barrels per day.
The refinery is said to have been completed with pre-inauguration tests currently ongoing.
The Dangote Refinery complex, located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos State, covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, which is larger than the size of Victoria Island in Lagos.
Its pipeline infrastructure is the largest anywhere in the world, with 1,100 kilometres to handle three billion Standard Cubic Feet per day (Scf/d) of gas due to the large capacity of the refinery.
Reports say that the refinery has a 435MW-capacity power plant that is able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).