A distillation column which is said to be the largest distillation column in the world arrives Nigeria after travelling over 11000 miles . The component is said to be the size of a football pitch in length(112.5m) and the weight is that of over 350 large elephants.

While the arrival of the column is a milestone for Dangote, there’s still work to do to get the refinery ready, said David Bleasdale, an executive director at CITAC, an adviser to downstream energy companies in Africa. A major construction challenge remains completing the groundwork for the facility, he said.

Designed to maximize gasoline output, it could start operations at the beginning of 2021, with full capacity reached by the end of the first half of the year, Devakumar Edwin, a group executive director at Dangote Industries, said in an interview in October.