Muhammadu Buhari, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Monday May 22, commissioned the newly built Dangote refinery plant, which is arguably Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the worlds biggest simple-train facility.
Ahead of the groundbreaking event, News Round The Clock gathered 20 facts readers should know about the new Dangote Refinery.
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1. It is located in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares.
2. The refinery is powered by a 435-megawatt (MW) power plant.
3. The refinery is the world’s largest single train with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day with a 900 KTPA Polypropylene plant.
4. At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for exports.
5. Designed for 100% Nigerian crude with flexibility to process other crudes.
6. Self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimization. Largest single order of 5 single-point mooring (SPMs) anywhere in the world.
7. Diesel and gasoline from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications.
8. The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission/effluent norms.
9. Incorporates state-of-the-art technology.
10. Designed to process large variety of crudes, including many of the African crudes, some of the middle eastern crudes and the US Light Tight Oil.
11. 65 million cubic meters of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers.
12. Bought over 1,200 units of various equipment to enhance the local capacity for site works.
13. Bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity.
14. Built the world’s largest granite quarry to supply coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone, dust and material for breakwater (10 million tons per year production capacity).
15. Developed a port and constructed two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tons/square meter to bring over dimensional cargoes close to the site directly.
16. Constructed two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export, two quays to handle liquid cargoes. The port will have six quays, including a roll on/roll off quay.
17. In the course of the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, with total number of piles up to 250,000.
18. It has 177 tanks of up 4.742 billion liters capacity.
19. Dangote is one of the few companies in e world executing a Petroleum refinery & a Petrochemical complex directly as an Engineering, Procurement and Construction(EPC) contractor.
20. When Dangote refinery is kickstarted , the price of premium motor spirit (Petrol) will crash to 10 Naira per liter.
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