
AO Lukman III
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Dangote to double refinery capacity to 1.4 mbd! The President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said there are plans to expand the Dangote oil refinery from the 650,000 capacity to 1.4 million barrels per day, the largest in the world. Dangote said this in an interview with S&P Global. The PUNCH first reported in July that the refinery planned to scale up to 700,000 bpd by December this year. According to S&P Global, the Nigerian business mogul is seeking to double the size of the refinery with Middle Eastern funding, putting it on track to become the largest in the world. The Dangote refinery has transformed Nigeria into a net exporter of diesel and jet fuel and supplies vast quantities of petrol once imported from Europe. Dangote was said to have described his ambitions to develop African energy independence as a “herculean task.” “We have to build the refinery again, either here or somewhere else. But really, somewhere else is not possible because we’d have to go and spend so much building infrastructure, and we have the infrastructure already here,” Dangote was quoted as saying.























