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Dangote Refinery to deepen Nigeria’s Downstream, Midstream Sectors performance

The coming on stream of the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Petroleum Refinery will guarantee availability of high quality environmentally compliant products in Nigeria, regional markets in West Africa, Southern Africa and inter-continental markets. The President/CE of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote made…

Dangote Refinery to break, set new record of 57,000 Personnel in a single company

The President/Chief Executive, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote has disclosed plans to increase the human capacity at the Dangote Refinery Project site from 40,000 to 57,000 personnel in the coming months. According to him, the project currently employs 29,000 Nigerians…

Dangote Refinery, NARTO partner on Efficient Products Haulage

Road Transport owners across Nigeria have expressed optimism that the 650,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Petroleum Refinery would deepen the downstream sector and positively impact their businesses. The transporters, under the aegis of Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) after a…

No plans to take over Dangote Refinery—AMCON

Contrary to some reports that the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) could take over the Dangote Refinery over debts owed by the Dangote Group to banks, the corporation have denied such claims, saying it have no business with the…

Dangote Refinery an inspirational scheme to private sector—Tinubu

As efforts are being intensified for the imminent completion of the multi-billion dollars 650,000bpd Dangote Refinery in Lagos, the project has been described as an inspiration to private sector operators in the country. Excited at the share humongous size of…

Dangote Refinery most visited private project by FG officials in 2019—BHIU

A month-by-month analysis of walking visits by top Federal Government officials throughout 2019 has shown that rather than a government project, Dangote Refinery, a private sector driven multibillion dollar scheme was most visited by officials of the Federal Government with…

‘Freight rate: FG to save $30.87 per MT of petroleum products from Dangote Refinery’

Considering the Lagos location of upcoming Dangote Refinery, Business Hilights Intelligent Unit (BHIU), an independent business research arm of Business Hilights Media Group, publishers of Business Hilights Online and Markets Business Hilights Newspapers, has revealed that the from the onset…

Dangote Refinery to save Nigeria’s $10bn annual petroleum products imports—Minister

Ahead of 2023 new deadline for end of refined petroleum imports given recently by the GMD of NNPC, Mr Mele Kyari, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Sunday disclosed in Lagos that “We are very…

Nigeria, Ghana top list of markets to watch for key oil & gas projects in 2020—AEC

In its African Energy Outlook 2020 report launched recently, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) highlighted the importance of increased infrastructure capacity in Africa’s long-term industrial development. Relying on the $12 billion Dangote Refinery in Nigeria and Ghana’s Tema LNG Terminal,…

Can FG wrestle self out from fuel import cabal to fix refineries, get new ones?

Whereas the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Lekki during a tour of the Dangote Refinery, Mele Kyari, said the Corporation is in the process of establishing two new 200,000bpd condensate refineries to boost in-country refining capacity,…