The XCMG Construction Machinery is set to work together with Dangote Industries Limited on the world’s largest oil refinery project.
The refinery project is located at Lekki Free Zone in Lagos, Nigeria and covers an area of 250,000 hectares. . Phases I and II of the US $35.38 billion project is expected to be completed by 2022. The Pipeline Infrastructure at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery is the largest in the world, with 1,100 kilometers to handle 3 Billion Standard Cubic Foot of gas per day. The Refinery alone has a 400MW Power Plant that is able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan DisCo
Once in full operation, the refinery will produce gasoline and other petrochemical products such as polyethylene and polypropylene. Dangote Refinery will have a number of processing units containing more than 65 columns and requiring more than 15 static mixers.
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The units include residue fluid catalytic cracker, mild hydro cracker, alkylation, naphtha hydrofining and continuous catalytic reforming units for the production of gasoline and diesel meeting Euro V standards as well as jet fuel adhering to international aviation specifications. XCMG team has been tasked to provide end-to-end, round-the-clock service to facilitate more than 2,500 units of construction machinery equipment.
“The refined oil output of the Dangote Refinery will be able to fulfill the gasoline demand in Nigeria sufficiently, even meeting West Africa’s demand for refined oil, freeing Nigeria from its dependence on oil imports,” said Jiansen Liu, vice president of XCMG and general manager of XCMG Import and Export Company.
Nigeria, the largest oil-producing country in Africa, currently has four operating oil refineries. However, due to equipment aging and poor maintenance, the plants are in a state of partial shutdowns with a combined daily output of less than 445,000 barrels, while the average daily consumption is approximately 40 million liters, 7 million liters less what is produced locally.
