•Aliko Dangote Dangote Group has signed a $400 million construction equipment agreement with XCMG Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., one of China’s leading manufacturers of construction machinery, in a move set to accelerate the expansion of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels ...
•Aliko Dangote The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says he is still fighting for the survival of his $20bn refinery, stressing that the fight is not yet finished. Dangote expressed optimism that he would win the fight for the refinery, stating his determination to fight on. According to Semafor, an international news medium, ...
•Port Harcourt refinery The federal government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, has announced the approval of a licence for the construction of a new refinery. The approval given to a company named Process Design and Development Limited is to establish and construct a new 27,000 barrels per day ref...
President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, today said that the Dangote Refinery was constructed without any government incentives. Dangote made this known during his keynote address at the Crude Oil Refinery Owners Association of Nigeria (CORAN) Summit in Lagos, reports Vanguard. The Summit has the theme, “Making Nigeria a Net Exporter o...
Nigerian oil company, Oando Plc, has been shortlisted by the Trinidadian government as one of three final contenders to take over the country’s state-owned refinery, Petrotrin. The defunct company is a state-owned oil company in Trinidad and Tobago, reports The PUNCH. The Trinidadian Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, disclosed this during a prese...
•Aliko Dangote Dangote Group has dismissed reports that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has started lifting Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, from its refinery. A newspaper had reported that NNPCL lifted petrol from Dangote Refinery and sold it for N897 per litre to Nigerians, reports The Nation. Ho...
•Two billionaire friends – Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola Billionaire businessman Femi Otedola has congratulated his friend and brother Aliko Dangote on the actualisation of his $20 billion refinery in Lagos. Otedola said with petrol now rolled out by the Dangote Refinery, the days of Nigeria bowing to foreign powers for our fuel needs a...
Dangote Refinery Limited has clarified its position on the supply of crude oil to its refinery by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, stating that it never accused the NNPCL of not supplying crude to its refinery. The firm made the clarification yesterday in a statement signed by Anthony Chiejina, the Dangote Group’s Chief,...
•House of Reps leaders visit Dangote refinery Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has rejected claims that petroleum products from his refinery are substandard. Dangote rejected the allegations yesterday when the leadership of the House of Representatives visited and toured the refinery located at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, reports C...
There was a fire outbreak today at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in the Lekki Free Zone, Lagos. Reacting to the incident, the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina, disclosed in a statement that the fire has been contained and there is no cause for alarm. The statement reads: “We have swiftly contained [&he...

