St. Gabriel Coconut Oil Refinery Project, a major industrial investment by Akwa Ibom State Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sufficiency, comprises of a factory complex complete with administrative offices, production areas, technical spaces, industrial firefighting systems, water treatment plants, effluent treatment plants and residential quarters for technical and managerial staff as well as parking areas for tractors carrying raw materials.

The project is located in the serene environment of Ikot Akpan Okop village in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area on 7.88 hectares. The total construction area is 15,000 m2. The project was flagged off by His Excellency, Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Gabriel Emmanuel during a ground-breaking ceremony on May 24th, 2017 and is in progress on track for commissioning in 2018.

Project Duration
Start Date End Date Duration Status
March, 2017 October, 2018 20 Months On-going

This Refinery is constructed to process/harness the coconut palm which abounds naturally in the state, to boost availability of raw materials for the refinery, a whooping 2million fast yeilding hybrid coconut trees is currently being planted on an 11,000 hecter's of land at the St Gabriel plantation in a swampland spanning MKpat Enin and Eastern Obolo LGA in Akwa Ibom State
This when completed will be the largest coconut plantation in Africa, and the most ambitious coconut project in the world done in the last 10yrs. All this is an effort to prepare Akwa Ibom State, which is Nigeria highest crude oil producing State from over reliance on petroleum.

current level of construction Admin offices in the middle and the residential for technical staff on the RHS completed while construction is ongoing on technical areas on the LHS of the photo.

The St Gabriel coconut plantation is the most Ambitious coconut project in the world today the Ambition is to cultivate 2 million coconut palm trees on an 11,000 hecter of land!

Work on these plantation is at an advanced stage, providing employment for many young people in Akwa Ibom.

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Impressive. This is good.

Very impressive but I am here to see something else.

I love this............

These people are serious. Atleast cow can't eat coconut tree.

Ongoing work At the coconut plantation.

Feed for the Nursery.

muykem:
Very impressive but I am here to see something else.

What Something else?

CodeTemplar:
This people are serious. Atleast cow can't eat coconut tree.

Chei see learner,
Cow dey eat the leaf even goat,sheep and you forgot that those fulani herdmen also carry sheep gum body when parading cow

Price comparison: As at today. 3/14/18
5 gallons of coconut oil(38lb) = $57.99
42 gallons of crude oil (1 barrel) =$64.64.

Coconut oil capable of generating more revenue per gallon than crude oil. The minders of Akwa Ibom State Government are thinking right. Excellent project.

St Gabriel Coconut oil Plantation.

The price comparison to coconut to crude is intersting.

work going on at the plantation

Refinery will process, Coconut oil, palm oil and palm kernel oil. and all other products of the oil processing.

Good.

impressive

swampy terrain.

more

coconut plantation

nice one

I am impressed. Sooner or later akwa ibom would compete with lagos.

uyai Akwa Ibom ayid.

This is a laudable project. Where is Okowa self.

Na wa.. So comon to plant coconut, na Filipino dey in charge. Isoryt!

Impressive. Akwa ibom state government is working.