Learn about the Dangote oil refinery in Nigeria Dangoterefinery is a 650,000 barrels per day
(bpd) integrated refinery and petrochemical project under construction in the Lekki Free
Zone near Lagos, Nigeria. It is expected to be the Africa’s biggest oil refinery and
the world’s biggest single-train facility, upon completion in 2020. Dangote Oil Refinery,
a company owned by the Nigeria-based Dangote Group, is developing the project with an estimated
investment of 12billion$. The Dangote refinery will process a variety of light and medium
grades of crude to produce Euro-V quality clean fuels including gasoline and diesel
as well as jet fuel and polypropylene. The integrated refinery and petrochemical project
is expected to generate 9,500 direct and 25,000 indirect jobs. Well africa reloaded has much
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The Refinery alone has a 400MW Power Plant that is able to meet the total power requirement
of Ibadan DisCo. The Refinery will meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined
products and also have a surplus of each of these products for export. Dangote Petroleum
Refinery is a multi-billion dollar project that will create a market for $11 Billion
per annum of Nigerian Crude. It is designed to process Nigerian crude with the ability
to also process other crudes.
Dangote refinery has significance for Nigeria Estimated to hold 37 billion barrels of proven
oil reserves, Nigeria is the second biggest oil-rich country in Africa, after Libya. The
West African country is, however, dependent on imported refined fuel products due to lack
of domestic refining capacity. The Dangote refinery will increase Nigeria’s refining
capacity two-fold and help meet the increasing domestic fuel demand, while generating foreign
exchange through exports. Dangote oil refinery location and site details
The refinery complex is being developed on a 2,635ha site on the Lekki Free Zone near
the Lekki Lagoon, along the coast of Atlantic Ocean. The geographical location of the refinery
is ideal for easy transshipment of refined petroleum products to the international markets.
Dangote has already built a jetty near the project site to receive heavy equipment for
the refinery construction. Dangote oil refinery design details
The processing facilities for the Dangote refinery include a crude distillation unit (CDU) and associated
facilities, a mild hydrocracking (MHC) unit, a residual fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC)
unit, a naphtha hydrotreater, and a gasoline hydrodesulfurisation (HDS) unit as well as
alkylation units. The refinery complex will also house sulphur recovery and hydrogen generation
facilities and a polypropylene unit. Comprising two steam methane reformer (SMR) units, the
hydrogen generation facility will generate 200,000Nm³/h of hydrogen and steam to produce
sulphur-free fuels. The other processing units at the refinery include the STRATCO® alkylation
unit, the MECS® sulphuric acid regeneration (SAR) unit, the MECS® DynaWave® sulphur
recovery unit, and the BELCO® EDV® fluid catalytic cracking unit. The refinery is designed
to produce up to 50 million liters of gasoline and 15 million liters of diesel a day.
Processing units at Nigeria’s new refinery The processing facilities at the refinery
will include a crude distillation unit (CDU) and associated facilities, mild hydrocracking
(MHC) unit, residual fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC), naphtha hydrotreater, and RFCC gasoline
hydrodesulfurisation (HDS) unit, as well as alkylation units. polypropylene unit will
also be included. The hydrogen generation complex will contain two steam methane reformer
(SMR) units. These will generate 200,000Nm³/h of hydrogen and steam, which will be used
to produce sulphur-free fuels. An additional set of processing units will be supplied
by DuPont to produce clean fuels. These units include a STRATCO® alkylation unit, a MECS®
sulphuric acid regeneration (SAR) unit, a MECS® DynaWave® sulphur recovery unit and
a BELCO® EDV® fluid catalytic cracking unit will also be included.
Production The Dangote refinery is expected to produce
10.4 million tonnes (Mt) of gasoline, 4.6Mt of diesel, and 4Mt of jet fuel a year. It
will also annually produce 0.69Mt of polypropylene, 0.24Mt of propane, 32,000t of Sulphur, and
0.5Mt of carbon black feed. Infrastructure facilities
The infrastructure facilities for the refinery complex include a pipeline system, access
roads, tank storage facilities, and crude and product-handling facilities. A marine
terminal, including a breakwater, jetty and harbour, has also been developed as part of
the project. Other facilities developed to support the project include an administrative
building, guardhouses, fire station, and pump stations. The refinery complex will also house
a fertilizer plant, which will utilize the refinery by-products as raw materials.
Financing for Dangote refinery A group of local and international banks led
by Standard Chartered Bank has agreed to provide a $3.3bn syndicated loan facility for the
project. The United States Trade and Development Agency is providing an N251.3bn ($0.997m)
training grant for the human resource development for the
refinery operation. Contractors involved
Engineers India is the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for the
project. Honeywell UOP was contracted for the supply of catalyst regeneration and dryer
regeneration control systems, column trays, heat exchanger tubes, a modular CCR unit,
and catalyst coolers among other equipment. C&I Leasing was contracted for providing transportation
and installation services for mooring systems and subsea pipelines of the refinery. Hang
Xiao Steel Structure Company received a $112m contract to provide steel structure for the
refinery. Jan De Nul Group was engaged for carrying out land reclamation works. MAN Diesel
& Turbo was contracted for supplying two compressor trains, while Air Liquide Engineering & Construction
was contracted for supplying the SMR units. Fabtech (18 columns), Schneider Electric (process
automation systems), SOFEC (Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring buoys), and WABAG (raw water treatment
plant) are the other suppliers involved in the Dangote refinery project.
It no suprise that with this initiative many people will be employed and many people
will grow as well through this. So all thanks to Ghe Nigeria base Dangote group. Am sure
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