Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery is expected to start processing crude in the third quarter of this year. Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Industries Limited, revealed the report and said that the refinery’s mechanical work is completed.
The plant is set to start with 540,000 bpd processing capacity. The full production is expected by the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023. According to African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO), the Nigerian oil refinery will reduce Africa’s petrochemical product importation by 36%.
Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim, secretary-general of APPO, stated that the Dangote oil refinery is also set to supply more than 12% of Africa’s products demand once it is operational. Dangote refinery is a 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) integrated refinery and petrochemical project under construction in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, Nigeria. It will be Africa’s biggest petroleum refinery and the world’s biggest single-train facility.
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Increase oil exports
Once onstream, the refinery will increase the country’s oil exports and reduce its reliance on imports of petroleum products, thereby boosting economic growth in Nigeria and generating thousands of jobs. 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.
Mammoet was contracted to assist in the construction of the refinery in 2018. The scope consisted of receiving, inland transport, on site lifting and installation of hundreds of refinery components. To optimize the construction process and schedule and ensure the highest levels of construction uptime, The firm drawn on its diverse fleet of heavy lifting and transport equipment. This has included conventional trailers and trucks, SPMTs, plus mobile and crawler cranes ranging in capacity from 250t to 1,600t.
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