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Great News:
Nigeria Rising!

Here are top 10 facts you didn’t know about the new Dangote Oil Refinery.

It has been a long 7 years! The Dangote Oil Refinery has finally been completed. It will be commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari on the 24th of this month (January) 2023.

1 - The Dangote Oil and Petrochemical Complex is a 650,000 BPD oil refinery. It is the largest single train oil refinery on the planet, the largest in Africa, the 7th largest oil refinery in the world.

2 - Mr Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, announced he would build a refinery in 2013, at that time, it costed $9 billion. It was not untill 2016 that construction started.

3 - The Refinery was originally meant to be built in the oil producing state of Ondo State, but due to lack of political will on the part Ondo State Government, Aliko Dangote moved the project to Lagos State, which, incidentally, just discovered oil.

4 - The Dangote Refinery, along with its Petrochemical Plant, is expected to generate $20 billion yearly for Nigeria.

5 - The Dangote Refinery will reposition Nigeria as an energy hub globally.

6 - The Dangote Refinery has the longest subsea gas pipeline in the world, with a total length of 1100km.

7 - The Dangote Refinery has the capacity to generate electricity of up to 12,000 MegaWatts.

8 - The Dangote Refinery is a $25 billion investment, the largest single investment carried out on the African continent by an individual and the most expensive industrial complex in Africa, and perhaps the world.

9 - The refinery will produce 50,000,000 litres (13,000,000 US gal) of Euro-V quality gasoline and 17,000,000 litres (4,500,000 US gal) of diesel daily, as well as aviation fuel and plastic products.

10 - It will provide 135,000 permanent jobs and overall 300,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Bonus facts:

- The Dangote Oil Refinery will have a Nelson complexity index of 10.5 which means that it is more complex than most refineries in the United States (average 9.5) or Europe (average 6.5).

(The largest refinery of the world, the Jamnagar Refinery in India, has a complexity of 21.1)

- The Refinery has the most piles for its pile foundation on the planet.

- The Dangote Refinery is situation on a land mass 6 times larger than Victoria Island, an island in Lagos.

- A few African Countries have shown interest in buying their refined oil from the Dangote Refinery.

Congratulations to all Nigerians and Africans.

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