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Dangote on track for Q4 commissioning

Previous updates on Africa’s largest refinery had been no more specific than sometime in 2022

Nigeria’s game-changing 650,000bl/d Dangote refinery is now expected to be commissioned in the fourth quarter of this year, with smaller, modular facilities to follow soon after. The $19bn Dangote project is being developed by a privately owned Nigerian conglomerate of the same name, although state-owned NNPC holds a 20pc equity stake and the government has been an enthusiastic backer. Dangote will be Africa’s largest refinery by some margin, dwarfing existing facilities in Algeria and South Africa. And it is also “the world’s largest single-train facility”, according to Patrick Obah, director of planning, research and statistics at the government’s Nigerian Content Development and Monitorin

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