Nigeria: Dangote Refinery plans capacity expansion to 1.4m bpd — Africa Links 24

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has launched an expansion programme to more than double capacity from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million within three years.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, David Bird, disclosed this on Wednesday during an interactive media session in Lagos.

Bird said the expansion would use a “roofless replication” model, duplicating existing infrastructure to accelerate delivery without altering core engineering designs.

“Once engineers…