Nigeria’s ‘Game Changer’ Dangote Oil Refinery Starts Operations

Refinery key for Nigeria to end costly imports of fuels
Production comes amid investigation by anti-graft commission

A tanker discharges crude oil in the first delivery to the Dangote Industries Ltd. refinery in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos. — A tanker discharges crude oil in the first delivery to the Dangote Industries Ltd. refinery in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos.
Photographer: Benson Ibeabuchi/Bloomberg

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By Nduka Orjinmo

January 13, 2024 at 8:07 AM UTC

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The new 650,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery in Nigeria owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, has started operations.

The plant outside Lagos is now producing diesel and aviation fuel, Dangote Group said Saturday on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The refinery will be key for Africa’s largest economy to process its own crude oil rather than importing costly fuel processed abroad.