20 KEY FACTS ABOUT THE DANGOTE REFINERY AHEAD OF TOMORROW'S COMMISSIONING :

1. It is located in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares.

2. The refinery is powered by a 435-megawatt (MW) power plant

3. The refinery is the world’s largest single train with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day with a 900 KTPA Polypropylene plant.

4. At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for exports.5. Designed for 100% Nigerian crude with flexibility to process other crudes.

6. Self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimization. Largest single order of 5 single-point mooring (SPMs) anywhere in the world.

7. Diesel and gasoline from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications.

8. The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission/effluent norms.

9. Incorporates state-of-the-art technology.

10. Designed to process large variety of crudes, including many of the African crudes, some of the middle eastern crudes and the US Light Tight Oil.

11. 65 million cubic meters of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers.

12. Bought over 1,200 units of various equipment to enhance the local capacity for site works.

13. Bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity.

14. Built the world’s largest granite quarry to supply coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone dust and material for breakwater (10 million tons per year production capacity).

15. Developed a port and constructed two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tons/square meter to bring over dimensional cargoes close to the site directly.

16. Constructed two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export, two quays to handle liquid cargoes. The port will have six quays, including a roll on/roll off

Extreme engineering. That's cool.

An incomparable feat by a quiet continental game-changer.

Kudos Mallam Aliko and thank you for verifiably moving us from consumption to production.

And this will further render the 4 parasitic public refineries useless.

Let’s see how far this new refinery can placate oil price for we Nigerians.

Let's hope it brings diesel price down

Nothing will still happen na them them

Beautiful achievement from Dangote group,thousands of youths will be meaningfully employed,reduce capital flight and thats how far it can go. On the issue fuel price reduction,nothing will be achieved from this end,prices might even still go up. Remember when his mega cement industry was to come up,Nigerians where told that this cement industry will help reduce the price of cement drastically,since the company will be able to produce all we need for local consumption and even for export but now we all know that was just tales by moon light as prices of cement went up the more.Dangote is a good capitalist and Nigeria shouldnt think that what the govt fails to do will be done by self acquiring business moguls.

Good