Dangote to commission 650,000 barrels per day petrochemical company on May 22
By Yusuf Yunus
Mr Anthony Chiejina, Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Ltd.,
says the multi-billion Naira Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical company will be commissioned
in Lagos on May 22.
Chiejina confirmed this to the Business Intelligence (TBI Africa) on Sunday in Lagos.
The facility is expected produce 650,000 barrels per day with the cost of completion pegged at 19 billion dollars.
The 650,000 barrels per day refinery is expected to boost the Federal Government’s effort to make Nigeria self-sufficient.
The Dangote Refinery complex located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos.
It covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, which is larger than the entire Victoria Island.
The refinery is the biggest in Africa and also the biggest single-train facility in the world.
A single-train refinery uses an integrated distillation unit or one Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) to refine crude oil into various petroleum products.
This is against the use of multiple distillation units by most big refineries.
lt was also gathered that the refinery will be commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari.
