Buhari To Commission Dangote Refinery May 22
Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train refinery, is set for inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 22, 2023.
Gentechnews gathered from a source that the refinery has been completed with pre-inauguration tests ongoing, adding that President Buhari would inaugurate the plant in Lagos on May 22.
The Dangote Refinery complex, which is located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos, covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, which is larger than the size of Victoria Island in Lagos.
The refinery is the biggest refinery in Africa and also the biggest single-train refinery in the world.The oil facility, which has the capacity to refine 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day, is expected to meet 100 percent of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have a surplus of each of these products for export.
The multi-billion dollar project, designed to process Nigerian crude, is expected to create a market for $21 billion per annum of Nigerian crude oil.
A single-train refinery uses an integrated distillation unit or one Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) to refine crude oil into various petroleum products, as against the use of multiple distillation units by most big refineries.
Due to the large capacity of the refinery, its pipeline infrastructure is the largest anywhere in the world, with 1,100 kilometres to handle three billion Standard Cubic Feet per day (Scf/d) of gas.
According to a report by the company, the refinery has a 435MW-capacity power plant that is able to meet the total power requirement of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).
