President Muhammadu Buhari will perform the honours at the long-awaited opening of the Dangote Oil Refinery in Epe, Lagos State on Monday (today), just days before he leaves office.
In a statement posted on Twitter on Saturday, the Dangote Group stated the refinery will produce a variety of refined products, including Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), diesel (AGO), aviation jet fuel and Dual-Purpose Kerosene (DPK).
Sanjay Gupta, the CEO of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals, claimed that “everything in this plant is the first in terms of magnitude. It is the world’s biggest single-train refinery.
Nowhere else, he said, “can a single column process 650,000 barrels per day.”
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The Lagos State Government encouraged commuters to plan their travel in and out of the Lekki-Epe corridor between 8 am and 2 pm on Saturday in advance of the commissioning.
The Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Complex in Lekki is located on terrain that is more than three times the size of Victoria Island, according to a tweet by Tolu Ogunlesi, Special Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media, from January 2022. He added that the fertiliser plant was already producing.
The Refinery, which occupies a land area of over 2,635 hectares and is powered by a 435 MW Power Plant, is situated in Ibeju, Lagos. World’s Largest Single-Train 900 KTPA Polypropylene Plant and 650,000 barrels per day Petroleum Refinery.
It can produce all the refined goods that Nigeria needs at full capacity, plus surplus for export. 100% Nigerian crude is the only crude that this design can process.
self-sufficient marine facility with the capacity to optimise freight. largest single order of five SPMs ever placed anywhere. The refinery’s diesel and petrol will meet Euro V requirements.
The refinery’s design complies with emission and effluent standards set by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the World Bank, the US EPA, and the European Union. It makes use of cutting-edge technologies.
It is made to process a wide range of crudes, including a lot of Middle Eastern and African crudes as well as US light tight oil. The largest dredgers in the world were used to dredge around 65 million cubic metres of sand for a price of about €300 million.
In order to increase the regional capability for site work, more than 1,200 units of varied equipment were purchased. The Dangote Group purchased 332 cranes to increase its capability for installing equipment.
The largest granite quarry in the world, with a production capacity of 10 million tonnes annually, was also constructed to produce coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone dust, and material for breakwaters.
The Dangote Group had to build two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tonnes/sq metre in order to carry over dimensions cargoes near to the site directly. He built two additional quays in the port that can accommodate up to Panamax export ships and two quays for liquid cargoes.
There will be a roll-on/roll-off quay among the port’s six quays. A total of 250,000 piles were drilled during the civil works, with 700 piles being drilled on some days. It has 177 tanks as well.
The port will include six quays, one of which will be a roll-on/roll-off quay. During the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, bringing the total number of piles to 250,000. It also contains 177 tanks with a total capacity of 4.742 billion litres.
Dangote is one of the few firms in the world that is directly involved in the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of a petroleum refinery and a petrochemical complex. 900 young engineers will be trained in refinery operations around the world. Mechanical engineers received their education at the GE University in Italy. Honeywell/UOP taught process engineers for six months.
