It is located in Eleko area of Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares.
It’s world’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels per day Petroleum Refinery with 900 KTPA Polypropylene Plant.
The Refinery is powered by a 435 MW Power Plant.
At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for export.
Refinery has it’s self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimisation, having the largest single order of 5 SPMs anywhere in the world.
Diesel & gasoline from the refinery conform to EuroV specifications.
The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission/effluent norms.
It incorporates state-of-the-art technology.
It is 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.
About 65 million cubic metres of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers.
Over 1,200 units of various equipment were bought to enhance the local capacity for site works. Dangote Group bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity.
Also built is the world’s largest granite quarry to supply coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone dust & material for break water (10 million tonnes per year production capacity).
It has a seaport with two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tonnes/sq metres; two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export and two quays to handle liquid cargoes. The port will have 6 more quays, including a roll-on/roll-off quay.
In the course of the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, with total number of piles up to 250,000.
It has 177 tanks of 4.742 billion litres capacity.
Dangote is one of the few companies in the world executing a Petroleum Refinery and a Petrochemical complex directly as an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Contractor.
The Refinery trained 900 young engineers in refinery operations abroad. Mechanical Engineers trained in the GE University in Italy. Process engineers trained by Honeywell/UOP for six months.
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