The management of Dangote Petrochemical Company, has said their new refinery would commence commercial operations at the beginning of 2018 following the speed at which contractors are delivering on their mandate, as the company is set to unveil the world 'Largest Single Refinery'.
The Refinery which was initially designed to handle 450,000 barrels per day, has been expanded to refine 600,000 barrels a day which comes on stream early 2018 and will make Nigeria self-sufficient in petroleum products refining and also become a major exporter of such products.
The project which is close to realisation, would mark a turning point in Nigeria’s search for solution in meeting local refining need for white products.
The senior general manager, Civil/Structural of Dangote Oil Refinery Ltd, Madhav Kelkar, said that the entire project construction and engineering would be concluded by 2017.
Kelkar said the project which is located at the Lagos Free Zone covers 2100 hectres of land thus making it most singular largest refining plant anywhere else, adding that the critical aspect of the project which is land reclamation would be concluded in the next five months to give way for installation of the plants components.
The manager said all contractors which include, Jan De Nul of Belgium, Sarathy Geotech of India have been fully mobilised to facilitate the dredging and soil investigation of the 2,600 hectres of land which would accommodate the petrochemical and fertiliser plants.
"We have in place state-of-the-art technology and equipment, to ensure the value chain which consists of crude reception facility, to the processing facility is adequately integrated," he explained.
Speaking at the level of work done at the temporary jetty, Emmanuel Chukwu, project engineer of Dantata & Sawoe said work on the site has attained 95 percent completion.
"We will complete dredging, loading and offloading facilities this month (October) the dredging will link the facility from the lagoon to the sea. We are moving at a very high speed because we commenced work on July 2014 and this October we shall be completing all the work," he assured.
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