At last, the largest single-train refinery in the world-Dangote Petroleum Refinery, began operations in the early hours of Friday, January 12, 2024.
This followed the delivery of the sixth one million barrels of crude supply to the refinery. The refinery had earlier received five million barrels in five batches.
The 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery, is expected to commence with the production of diesel and aviation fuel before moving on to petrol output.
The company in an earlier statement had declared that the “Dangote Petroleum Refinery can meet 100 per cent of Nigeria’s requirement of all refined products, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and aviation jet, and also have surplus of each of these products for export.”
The facility sits on 2,635 hectares (6,500 acres) of land at the Lekki Free Zone on the edge of Lagos city and costs an estimated $19bn.
