Dangote Ships Fuel to Five Nations After Reaching Full Capacity
Fuel storage at the Dangote Industries oil refinery in Lagos, Nigeria.
Photographer: Benson Ibeabuchi/BloombergNigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has begun exporting fuel across Africa after reaching full production, shipping about a dozen cargoes to markets as far as Tanzania.
The shipment of about 456,000 tons of petroleum products represents less than a fifth of the plant’s monthly output. The facility owned by billionaire Aliko Dangote ramped up processing crude to its full nameplate capacity of 650,000 barrels a day last month, the company said.