A piece of equipment that will process crude oil for Nigeria’s Dangote refinery set sail on Monday from China to Nigeria.
Oil company Sinopec said this in a tweet on Monday.
The Dangote refinery is one project everyone in Africa is holding their breath for, as construction reaches advanced stages.
The 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in Lekki, Lagos is set to be Africa’s largest and could transform the country from fuel importer to a net exporter.
“On July 29, the world’s largest atmospheric tower built by Sinopec slowly left a wharf in Ningbo,” the Sinopec tweet said.
“Following the Maritime #SilkRoad, it will travel to #Nigeria and be installed at the world’s biggest single-train facility - Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery,” the tweet explained.
For the type of refinery, the company is building, the atmospheric tower is the primary unit processing crude oil into fuels.
It will likely take at least a month to reach Lagos.
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Impressive.