The 600 and fifty barrels a day Dangote refinery in Lagos will obtain the final lot of 1 million barrels of crude Monday, setting the stage for the historic graduation of operation on the plant.
On Thursday, the plant obtained the fifth crude oil cargo of 1 million barrels of Bonny Mild grade equipped by the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL).
Dangote Group introduced the fifth crude cargo to the refinery in an announcement issued Friday.
The most recent improvement was a big step for the refinery because it hopes to start operations and in the end assist Nigeria to realize self-sufficiency in petroleum merchandise and save overseas alternate expended on importation of completed merchandise from overseas.
In keeping with the assertion, the newest fifth consignment to be delivered to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery facility out of the six million barrels of crude being anticipated, arrived on the Single Level Mooring (SPM)-C2 Dangote Offshore Oil Terminal on Thursday, and had already been discharged to the refinery’s crude oil tanks.
The Lagos Free Commerce Zone-housed Dangote Refinery had earlier obtained 4 million barrels of crude.
Managing Director of Dangote Ports Operations, Mr. Akin Omole, had instructed journalists then on the Dangote Quay, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos that the Refinery would obtain about 4 million crude oil shipments earlier than the tip of 2023 and the remaining two by the early of January 2024.
As soon as the six million barrels are absolutely delivered, it would facilitate the preliminary run of the refinery in addition to kick-start the manufacturing of diesel, aviation gasoline, and Liquefied Petroleum Gasoline (LPG) earlier than subsequently progressing to the manufacturing of petrol.
The plant is anticipated to play a pivotal function in assuaging the gasoline provide challenges confronted by Nigeria in addition to the West African nations.
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has the capability to satisfy 100 per cent of Nigeria’s requirement of all refined merchandise, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and aviation jet, and likewise has a surplus of every of those merchandise for export.
The refinery was constructed to take crude via its two SPMs positioned 25 kilometres from the shore and to discharge petroleum merchandise via three separate SPMs. As well as, the refinery can load 2,900 vehicles a day at its truck-loading gantries.
Dangote Refinery has a self-sufficient marine facility with the flexibility to deal with the most important vessel globally accessible. As well as, all merchandise from the refinery will conform to Euro V specs.
The refinery is designed to adjust to US EPA, European emission norms, and Division of Petroleum Assets (DPR) emission/effluent norms in addition to African Refiners and Distribution Affiliation (ARDA) requirements.
Whereas receiving the primary consignment, President of Dangote Group, Mr. Aliko Dangote, had acknowledged: “We’re delighted to have reached this vital milestone. This is a vital achievement for our nation because it demonstrates our means to develop and ship massive capital initiatives. Our focus over the approaching months is to ramp up the refinery to its full capability. I sit up for the subsequent vital milestone once we ship the primary batch of merchandise to the Nigerian market.”
