President Muhammadu Buhari will on May 22, 2023, inaugurate the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery expected to bring solutions to Nigeria’s perennial refining issues.
The Special Assistant to the President on Digital Communications Bashir Ahmad who disclosed this in a tweet on his handle said efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products will receive a boost as the world’s largest single-train refinery, is set for inauguration.
The multi-billion-dollar Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Company is said to have been completed with pre-inauguration tests currently ongoing.
The Dangote Refinery complex, located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos State, covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, which is larger than the size of Victoria Island in Lagos and its pipeline infrastructure is the largest anywhere in the world, with 1,100 kilometers to handle three billion Standard Cubic Feet per day of gas due to the large capacity of the refinery.
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