Barring unforeseen circumstances, President Muhammed Buhari will on May 22, 2023 commission the Dangote Refinery.
The Dangote Refinery with a capacity to produce 650,000 barrels per day is the world’s largest single-train refinery which has been under construction for more than five years.
A media aide to President Buhari Bashir Ahmed in a tweet on Sunday revealed that the project is now set for commissioning and the inauguration will be performed before the end of the current administration.
“Efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products have received a boost as the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train refinery, is set for inauguration on May 22nd, 2023, by President Muhammadu Buhari.”
he Dangote Refinery complex, which is located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos, covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, which is larger than the size of Victoria Island in Lagos.
The refinery is the biggest refinery in Africa and also the biggest single-train refinery 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, as against the use of multiple distillation units by most big refineries.
Due to the large capacity of the refinery, its pipeline infrastructure is the largest anywhere in the world, with 1,100 kilometres to handle three billion Standard Cubic Feet per day (Scf/d) of gas.
According to a report by the company, the refinery has a 435MW-capacity power plant that is able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).
Efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products have received a boost as the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest… pic.twitter.com/b6KRHOuy12
— Bashir Ahmad, OON (@BashirAhmaad) May 7, 2023
