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Preparations are in top gear for the commencement of production in Dangote Refinery, as the petrochemical company has received the fourth crude shipment of, one million barrels of bonny light crude supplied by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), and expecting the fifth crude shipment, anytime from now. The fresh one million barrels of…

Buhari, Five African Presidents to Commission Dangote Petroleum Refinery

In an epoch-making event that will positively transform Nigeria’s oil and gas sectoral landscape, President Muhammadu Buhari will today commission Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals, the world’s largest single train refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, alongside his counterparts from Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Niger, and Chad. Promoted by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, the petroleum refinery with…

Dangote Refinery Awards Scholarship to 460 Students in Host Communities

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes, Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Dangote Fertiliser Limited have awarded scholarships to 460 students of secondary schools and tertiary institutions from its host communities in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State. The company said the scholarship had become an annual event meant to contribute to the educational development of…

Buhari impressed with Dangote’s $2.5bn Fertiliser plant, Says Nigeria to Witness Agric Boom

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commissioned the new 3 million Metric Tonnes capacity per annum state-of-the-art Dangote Fertiliser Urea Plant, with an emphatic assurance that the project would give a huge fillip to Nigeria’s agricultural sector, which revitalisation has been a focal point of his administration’s economic policy. The new plant, which he commissioned in the…

IMF: Dangote Refinery, Supportive Credit Facility, Can Accelerate Nigeria’s Economic Recovery Process

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has noted that the non-oil sector of the Nigerian economy could be stronger, benefitting from its recent growth momentum, higher production from the new Dangote Refinery, and supportive credit policies. In IMF’s Executive Board 2021 Article IV Consultation with Nigeria released recently, the global organisation added that Nigeria’s ratification of…

Ogun Will Assume Oil Producing Status Soon – Abiodun

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun says his administration is working towards ensuring that the state takes advantage of its oil rich deposit and becomes an oil producing state. Abiodun gave this position during the Convocation Lecture he delivered at the 2nd and 3rd convocation ceremony of the Mountain Top University with the topic, “Quest…

Dangote Refinery Awards Scholarship to Students in Host Communities

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility programmes, Dangote Oil Refining Company has awarded scholarships to 137 tertiary institutions and secondary school students from its host communities in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State. The company said the scholarship had become an annual event meant to contribute to the educational development of the people and position them…

Dangote Refinery to Become Highest Employer of Chemical Engineers in Nigeria

The National President of Nigeria Society of Chemical Engineers (NSCh) has revealed that Dangote Oil Refining Company will be the highest employer of chemical engineers in the country when the refinery comes on stream. The Society’s National President, Engr. Saidu A. Muhammed, disclosed this during the NSCh’s visit/tour of the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical project…

Adequate Fuel Supply; NNPC Making Good Its Promise

By Adewole Kehinde Since his assumption of office as the GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari and his management team has made well, NNPC’s promise to ensure Nigerians enjoy a hitch-free celebration to date. It will be recalled that on October 22, 2021, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria…

OPEC Hinges Attainment of Global 6.9mbpd Refining Capacity Addition on Dangote Refinery

Dangote’s 650,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) oil refinery project has been identified as one of the oil distillation companies that would boost global refining capacity by 6.9 million barrels per day between 2021 and 2026. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which made this disclosure in its 2021 World Oil Outlook released recently, said Africa’s…