Dangote Refinery, was established by a business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 22, 2023.
CONVERSEER has put together 20 things you need to know about the Dangote Refinery.
20 Things To Know About Dangote Refinery
1. It is located in ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares
2. World’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels per day Petroleum Refinery with 900 KTPA Polypropylene Plant
3. The Refinery is powered by a 435 MW Power Plant
4. At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for export
5. Designed for 100% Nigerian Crude with flexibility to process other crudes.
6. Self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimisation. Largest single order of 5 SPMs anywhere in the world
7. Diesel & gasoline from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications
8. The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission / effluent norms
9. Incorporates stateoftheart technology
10. Designed to process large variety of crudes including many of the African Crudes, some of the Middle Eastern Crudes and the US Light Tight Oil
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11. 65 million cubic metres of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers
12. Bought over 1,200 units of various equipment to enhance the local capacity for site works
13. Bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity
14. Built the world’s largest granite quarry to supply coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone dust & material for break water (10 million tonnes per year production capacity).
15. Developed a port and constructed two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tonnes/ sq metre to bring over dimensional cargoes close to the site directly
16. Constructed two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export, two quays to handle liquid cargoes. The port will have 6 quays, including a roll-on/roll-off quay
17. In the course of the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, with total number of piles up to 250,000
18. It has 177 tanks of 4.742 billion litres capacity
19. Dangote is one of the few companies in the world executing a Petroleum Refinery and a Petrochemical complex directly as an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Contractor. Training of 900 young engineers in refinery operations abroad.
20. Mechanical Engineers trained in the GE University in Italy. Process engineers trained by Honeywell/UOP for six months
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