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Dangote targets 30-month Lekki refinery expansion

  • Märkte: Oil products
  • 02.06.26

Nigeria's Dangote aims to finish the expansion of its 700,000 b/d Lekki refinery within the next 30 months, Dangote Industries vice president Devakumar Edwin has told Argus.

"It's an aggressive target, but we are trying our best," he said. The milestone in focus is "mechanical completion" of a new 750,000 b/d crude distillation unit (CDU) and additional secondary units by December 2028.

Edwin told Argus in January that Dangote has placed equipment orders to realise the refinery expansion with 20-month lead times.

Dangote's existing CDU is now able to run at 700,000 b/d, Edwin said, up from 650,000 b/d. "We have been pushing up production by improving operating efficiency". Crude receipts at the refinery in May were the second highest for any month since the facility began operations, according to Argus tracking, after hitting a record 635,000 b/d in April.

This suggests that the Lekki refinery would overtake Reliance Industries' 1.4mn b/d Jamnagar refinery to become the largest refinery in the world at 1.45mn b/d CDU capacity upon mechanical completion of the current expansion.

Dangote's refinery would build considerably on its position as a key Atlantic basin refinery once expanded. It is already the largest supplier of refined products to the domestic Nigerian market and the broader west African region, while its deliveries of jet to Europe have been key in cushioning the impact of supply shortfalls from Mideast Gulf producers as the US-Iran war continues to disrupt exports from the region.

An ongoing feasibility study for Dangote to build an east African refinery at the port of Mombasa, Kenya, or at the port of Tanga, Tanzania, further underpins the company's ambition to increase its footprint in the African refining industry at a time when other grand projects in west Africa are struggling to get off the ground.


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