Dangote Refinery set for petrol sales start after ending rift with oil suppliers

Dangote Refinery is upbeat its 650,000 barrel-per-day capacity crude processing plant will commence sales to fuel marketers in August.

The development follows the intervention of big industry players and the Nigerian Government in a major dispute with suppliers, helping end a delayed kick-off of distribution of the fuel.

Production began at Africa’s biggest refinery in January, with the refiner processing diesel and aviation for a start in big relief from construction delays that caused the project ten years to be completed, shooting initial costs of $9 billion to $19 billion at delivery.