NNPCL to Deliver Four Million Barrels of Crude Oil to Dangote Refinery

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPCL), has scheduled to supply four crude oil cargoes, (four million barrels), under its February program to the $20 billion Dangote refinery.

The four cargoes are expected to increase the total supply to about one billion barrels of crude as six million barrels have already been delivered to the plant.

This, according to Reuters will be adequate for the plant to test-run its operations in the coming weeks.

Dangote’s group Executive Director for Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Edwin Devakumar, said the company did not request cargoes from NNPC for January.

The refinery is also looking at crude supplies from other countries, he said without disclosing further details.

Initial processing capacity is expected to reach 350,000 barrels per day, to ramp up to full capacity by the end of the year, Dangote said.

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The Managing Director of Dangote Ports Operations, Mr. Akin Omole had said: Once the 6 million barrels are fully delivered, it will facilitate the initial run of the refinery as well as kick-start the production of diesel, aviation fuel, and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) before subsequently progressing to the production of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).

According to the company, Dangote Oil Refinery is 650,000 barrels per day (BPD) integrated refinery project under construction in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, Nigeria.

It is expected to be Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the world’s biggest single-train facility.