Weeks after Rasheed Adewoyin submitted his CV at the Dangote refinery’s security post, he was offered a job as a scaffolder at the fertilizer plant by an Indian company, Onshore Construction Company Pvt. Ltd (OCCPL), which was in charge of structural engineering, large-scale piping, and heavy equipment erections.
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Africa’s largest and Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery is set to diversify its source of crude oil by importing from Trafigura Group of the United States, Bloomberg reports.
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has registered seven members of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) for the purchase and distribution of its refined petroleum products from the refinery.
The cost of crude oil, the exchange rate of the Dollar to the Naira, and government interventions (i.e., subsidies, taxes, levies, etc.) are the biggest factors in determining the price of petrol, diesel, kerosene, and other petroleum products to the consumer.
The Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company, world’s largest single-train refinery, has confirmed it would receive the shipments of the fifth and sixth crude oil from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) on Thursday and Saturday this week.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has supplied another one million barrel of crude oil to Dangote Refinery for commencement of production.
Renowned economist Bismarck Rewane says it makes no sense for the country to export crude on forward contracts and not supply indigenous firms like Dangote Refinery.
The president of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has disclosed that the $20 billion Dangote Refinery will reach its capacity of 650,000 barrels per day by the end of 2024.
There was a rumour recently that the Dangote Refinery cannot start crude processing as scheduled because the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) had no crude to supply to the huge refinery.
On Monday May 22, 2023, policymakers and captains of industries from across the world converged at the Lekki axis of Lagos state for the commissioning of the world’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels-per-day petroleum refinery, built by Dangote Group. Going by commentaries, the refinery when become fully operational will give a boost to efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil and save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products.