Dangote Group says petroleum products from its 650,000 per day refinery will hit the market by early 2022 against the previous 2021 fourth-quarter target.
Devakumar Edwin, executive director of capital projects and portfolio management at Dangote Group, told Arise TV that the earlier completion and products production date could not be met due to the COVID-19 pandemic that as restrictions led to delays in the shipment of equipment from abroad.
In November 2020, the organization stated its refinery had reached eighty percentage crowning glory; engineering and production were one hundred percentage, and procurement changed into 98 percent prepared.
He said the organization has gone ahead with the development agenda and that by way of stop of 2021 it would have finished mechanical finishing touch and proceed with the inauguration in December.
“As you rightly said, it’s a 650,000 barrels in step with day refinery and it's far tons large than the existing potential inside Nigeria. And that is the biggest single-teach refinery within the global,” Edwin said.
“We had was hoping to complete on the quit of closing 12 months and begin the commissioning early this yr, but as you know, the impact of the COVID-19 had a primary effect on us.
“We are receiving goods manufactured inside the US, Europe, China and India and almost all of the four nations were laid low with COVID.
“So, our equipment deals got behind schedule and because of the motion restrictions, the shipping were given not on time and the construction engineers additionally were given restrained.
“So, now, we've gone far ahead with the development time table and with the aid of the end of this 12 months, we can have mechanical completion and we start the commissioning with the aid of December this 12 months. So, we count on the products to begin coming out early next year.”
According to Edwin, the fertiliser plant facility is prepared, including that the finished merchandise from the plant could be inside the market this month.
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