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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 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.
The group has also diversified into oil and gas-related ventures, establishing a 3 million tonnes fertilizer plant, petroleum refinery capable of refining 650,000 barrels of oil and a petrochemical operation. [8] Dangote Refinery was inaugurated in May 2023, and will be the largest single train refinery in the world at full capacity. [17] [18]
Gas prices are expected to rise this summer by about $0.10 per gallon amid falling refinery capacity and higher refining costs, according to government data. "US retail gasoline prices will ...
The decision by Phillips 66 this week to shutter its refinery in Wilmington next year will wipe out more than 8% of the state's crude oil processing capacity. Another refinery shuts down in ...
In September 2024, Dangote Oil Refinery began operations with capacity to produce 650,000 barrels (~103 m liters) of petrol per day and the potential to significantly reduce Nigeria's reliance on imported petroleum products. [95] NNPC, Nigeria's state-owned oil firm, is the sole customer of the refinery.
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has broken ground on the construction of a 300,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery that the government hopes will turn the West African country into the region's ...
The refinery complex has an 84 MW gas fired electric power plant, [9] and four boilers each with a steam generation capacity of 120 tonnes (t) per hour. [7] The refinery products include petrol, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, paraffin for aircraft and households, low-viscosity fuel oil (LPFO) and high-viscosity fuel oil (HPFO). [7]