The Dangote Refinery in Lekki, Nigeria is the world’s largest single-train refinery, with a capacity of 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It’s owned by Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, and is part of the Dangote Group.
The refinery opened in May 2023 after several years of delays and cost over $19 billion to build.
The refinery is designed to process Nigerian crude, but can also process other African crudes, as well as Middle Eastern Arab Light and US Light Tight crudes. It’s expected to produce 10.4 million metric tons of gasoline, 4.6 million tons of diesel, and 4 million tons of aviation fuel annually.
The refinery also has a 1,100 kilometer pipeline infrastructure that can handle 3 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day, and a 435MW power plant
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The Refinery is the largest single train refinery in the world with 650,000 barrel capacity on a single Crude Distillation Unit (CDU)
The Refinery was built on about 2,635 hectares of land at a cost of about $20bn to produce 650,000 barrels of crude per day at full capacity.
The Refinery has a total of 177 storage tanks with capacity to reserve 4.742 billion liters, with more than 50% of the storage slated for refined products. The refinery recently started working on additional storage facility of 600 million liters to expand the crude storage capacity.
The Refinery is expected to produce about 10.5 million Metric Tons of PMS, 4.6 million Metric Tons of AGO, 4 Million Metric Tons of Aviation Fuel, about 700,000 Metric Tons of Polypropylene, 240,000 Metric Tons of Propane, 32,000 Metric Tons of Sulphur and about 500,000 Metric Tons of Carbon Black annually.
The Refinery has 70 Loading Gantries with turn around time (TAT) of 20 minutes which means 210 trucks can be loaded in just one hour. This is approximately 2,100 trucks for 8-hour loading a day. At 33,000 liter per truck, that’s about 70m liters of finished products per day. About twice our daily PMS consumption.
The Refinery is positioned to help Nigeria sabe up to $30bn in foreign exchange and earn about $10bn from exportation of Refined Products annually.
The Refinery is expected to employ over 8,000 people in direct employment and over 350,000 indirect jobs in addition to economic activities stimulated by the Refinery. Over 1,000 Nigerian Engineers have been trained by the Dangote Group and posted to various business units majorly the refinery.