Giant Dangote Oil Refinery Begins Production in 3rd Quarter
- Dangote refinery plans to process 540,000 barrels a day
- Refinery capacity to meet Nigeria’s domestic fuel need
Stack towers at the Dangote oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district, outside of Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year.
Mechanical work on the refinery is complete and “hopefully before the end of third quarter we should be in the market,” Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Industries Limited, said in a briefing at the plant site in Lagos.