The Dangote Petroleum Refinery could begin operating at full capacity in 30 days.
Edwin Devakumar, vice-president of Dangote Industries
Limited (DIL) spoke to Reuters on Monday.
At full capacity, the plant will be processing about 650,000
barrels of crude per day — an amount experts have said is more than sufficient
to handle local demand of petroleum products.
“The refinery is
currently operating at 85 percent capacity and we can go 100 percent in 30
days,” Devakumar said.
The vice president also said the refinery is exploring new
markets for its refined products.
“We are looking at all the markets right now,” Devakuma
said.
On February 6. the Dangote refinery announced that it
successfully exported two jet fuel cargoes to Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest
oil and gas company.
The 650,000 bpd facility began processing crude into
products, including diesel, naphtha, and jet fuel, in January 2024 and started
processing petrol in September.
The refinery has since been making efforts to ramp up
production, receiving about 24 million barrels of Nigerian supply in October
and November last year.
Reports on January 28, said Dangote refinery is also
expected to receive up to 12 million barrels of crude oil from the United
States.
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