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The Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Dangote Group that was inaugurated on 22 May 2023 [1] in Lekki, Nigeria.When fully operational, it is expected to have the capacity to process about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the largest single-train refinery in the world.
The Dangote Group is a Nigerian multinational industrial conglomerate, founded by Aliko Dangote. [2] It is the largest conglomerate in West Africa and one of the largest on the African continent. The group employs more than 30,000 people, generating revenue in excess of US$ 4.1 billion in 2017.
In Ibeju Lekki, there are on-going and proposed industrial developments such as the Dangote Refinery which is expected to be the world's biggest single-train facility and estimated to cost $9bn. It covers a total area of 2,635ha on the Lekki Free Zone near the Lekki Lagoon, enabling easy shipment of refined petroleum products to international ...
Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Nigeria.It is located to the south-east of Lagos city.Lekki is a naturally formed peninsula, adjoining to its west Victoria Island and Ikoyi districts of Lagos, with the Atlantic Ocean to its south, Lagos Lagoon to the north, and Lekki Lagoon to its east; however, the city's southeast, which ends around the western edge of Refuge Island, adjoins the eastern part ...
You can find a comprehensive description of most of these units in the article about the Dangote refinery in Lekki here.) There is also a butamer isomerisation plant, [8] an alkylation plant, a hydrogen purification plant, a fuel gas vaporiser and plants for treating acidic water and lye. [7]
Aliko Dangote (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian businessman and industrialist. He is the first man to build a private refinery in Nigeria. Forbes estimates his net worth at US$10.7 billion and Bloomberg Billionaires Index at $27.1 billion, and ranked 225th and 70th richest individual in the world respectively in 2025.
At first, zoning was pretty modest. The point was to stop someone from buying your neighbor’s house and turning it into an oil refinery. But eventually people realized they could use zoning for other purposes. In the late 1960s, it finally became illegal to deny housing to minorities.
The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.