Aliko Dangote has disclosed that the Dangote Refinery has secured a licence to refine up to 300,000 barrels of Nigerian crude per day.
Dangote, who state this in an interview on Saturday in Riyadh on the sidelines of the Saudi-Nigeria business roundtable, made it known that the refinery will begin to process petrol soon.
“We don’t want to start our refinery with foreign goods; we want to start with the Nigerian crude,” the billionaire told Bloomberg. “We’re more than ready and you will see our gasoline products soon.”
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while speaking on the commencement of operations at the refinery, he said the refinery will start producing “very, very soon.”, stressing that the refinery’s first priority is to supply petrol to Nigeria before exporting elsewhere, including the West African region.
He added that the refinery will receive crude from other producers in Nigeria as well as the country’s state oil company.
