Second crude provide to reach in three weeks — Dangote refinery

Dangote Oil Refining Firm says its plant is awaiting the second cargo of barrels of crude in three weeks after it obtained its maiden a million barrels on Friday.

The corporate, in a press release, stated the STASCO vessel sailed to the refinery’s single-point mooring, the place it was discharged into the refinery’s crude oil from the Shell Worldwide Buying and selling and Transport Firm Restricted.

The PUNCH studies that the primary crude feedstock for Dangote’s 650,000 b/d refinery has arrived within the nation, based on SP International quoting market sources and tanker monitoring information.

The analytical agency stated the event indicated that gas manufacturing on the new $19 billion facility is lastly set to begin after years of delays.

In response to the report; the OTIS tanker loaded a 950,000-barrel cargo of Agbami crude on Dec. 6 and was discharged on the refinery’s terminal on Thursday.

In the meantime, the chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had stated the plant would begin manufacturing with 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude.

Within the assertion, the agency stated the inaugural a million barrels, representing the primary section of the six million barrels to be equipped to the refinery by a spread of suppliers, ought to maintain the preliminary 350,000 bpd to be processed by the power.

The refinery stated it’s going to obtain the subsequent 4 cargoes — to be equipped by the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted — in two or three weeks.

“The following 4 cargoes will probably be equipped by the NNPC in two to 3 weeks and the ultimate of the six cargoes will probably be equipped by ExxonMobil.

“This provide will facilitate the preliminary run of the refinery in addition to kick-start the manufacturing of diesel, aviation gas, and LPG earlier than subsequently progressing to the manufacturing of Premium Motor Spirit.

“This newest improvement will play a pivotal position in assuaging the gas provide challenges confronted by Nigeria in addition to the West African nations,” the assertion added.