Dangote Group said its 650,000 barrels
per day capacity refinery currently under construction in Lagos would
come on stream by the end of 2018.
The group’s Executive Director,
Stakeholders’ Relations/Corporate Communications, Alhaji Ahmed Mansur ,
announced this during a media parley in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said this would ultimately end fuel importation.
He said the refinery’s daily production
capacity would be 150 per cent of the current total demand of petroleum
products in the country, saying that the excess would be exported to
other countries.
Mansur said a 1.3 million metric tonnes
per annum petrochemical plant was also under construction at the
refinery site in Lekki area of Lagos .
