Dangote refinery begins operation in 2018

Dangote Refining and Petrochemical Plant has hinted of plans to begin operation in 2018.

When completed, the plant will have refining capacity of 650,000 barrels per day (bpd), production of 750,000 metric tonnes of polypropylene per year and 2.8 million tonnes of fertilizer per annum.

Ripples gathered that the construction work on the company located in Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State with other companies is progressing rapidly.

Speaking on the project, the Senior General Manager, Civil and Structural, Dangote Refinery, Madhar Kelkar said the entire project is situated on 2600 hectares of land.

“This is the most critical aspect of the project, others including assembling and coupling together of equipment as well as installations to make up the plant, will just take a couple months to complete. I think we have made very good progress and we should be happy with what we have done so far.”

Kelkar said the Belgian company – Jon De Nul, with footprint all over the world, is handling the dredging work.

“This has never been done in this part of the world before, dredging from the high sea with such level of precision and expertise.

“With this project, Nigeria will reach self-sufficiency in little or no time, and the vision is not just to supply the domestic market, but to export to neighbouring countries to be able to generate some foreign exchange (forex) for the economy. Besides, we will be generating and saving a significant amount of forex, so it is a massive investment for Nigeria,” he added.

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