• Where is the Lekki oil refinery located?
  • The refinery is situated on a 6,180 acres (2,500 hectares) site at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki, Lagos State. It is supplied with crude oil by the largest sub-sea pipeline infrastructure of the world (1,100 km long). When fully operational it will provide 135,000 permanent jobs in the region.
  • Which refinery is built in Nigeria?
  • In the past 15-years, the only refinery built in Nigeria is the 1,000 BPD Ogbele Diesel Plant owned by Niger Delta Petroleum Company (NDPC) located in Bayelsa State. The U.S. Export-Import Bank has agreed to provide a loan guarantee for $10 million of the $29.8 million total cost of the 12,000 BPD to make Modular Refinery in Eket-Akwa Ibom State.
  • What is Dangote oil refinery?
  • Dangote Oil Refinery is a 650,000 barrels per day (BPD) integrated refinery project under construction in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, Nigeria. It is expected to be Africa¡¯s biggest oil refinery and the world¡¯s biggest single-train facility.
  • What is a traditional refinery?
  • A traditional refinery is a high-capacity crude oil refinery constructed at a site involving various processing units to produce and meet high-quality petroleum products, such as high-octane gasoline, aviation or jet fuel, and ultra-low sulfur diesel.
  • Why should Nigeria invest in Dangote Refinery?
  • With a greater capacity than the total output of Nigeria’s existing refining infrastructure, the Dangote Refinery will be able to meet the country’s entire domestic fuel demand, as well as export refined products.
  • What is Africa’s biggest oil refinery?
  • It is expected to be Africa¡¯s biggest oil refinery and the world¡¯s biggest single-train facility. The Pipeline Infrastructure at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery is the largest anywhere in the world, with 1,100 kilometers to handle 3 Billion Standard Cubic Foot of gas per day.