The 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery is ready to import crude from america (US) within the coming months, a report has mentioned.
Trafigura Group offered 2 million barrels of WTI Midland to the Dangote refinery for end-February supply, Bloomberg reported Monday, quoting merchants with information of the matter.
That is the primary time that the large refinery has bought non-Nigerian crude, merchants mentioned.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery had earlier within the month commenced manufacturing of diesel and aviation gasoline.
Asserting the graduation in an announcement, the corporate mentioned the refinery has thus far acquired six million barrels of crude oil at its two SPMs positioned 25 kilometres from the shore.
The primary crude supply was executed on December 12, 2023, and the sixth cargo was delivered on January 8.
The primary cargo that arrived on the plant was from Agbami crude grade from Shell Worldwide Buying and selling and Transport Firm Restricted (STASCO), one of many largest buying and selling firms in Nigeria and globally, buying and selling over 8 million barrels of crude oil each day.
The corporate made an additional transfer in the direction of the graduation of the manufacturing of refined petroleum merchandise with the receipt of an extra a million barrels of crude bonny mild equipped by the Nigeria Nationwide Petroleum Firm (NNPC Ltd).
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The recent a million barrels of crude from the Shell terminal through the MT Otis owned by Trafigural is the second consignment to be delivered to the Dangote facility out of the six million barrels of crude being anticipated by the world’s largest single-train refinery.
The refinery can load 2,900 vehicles a day at its truck-loading gantries. The merchandise from the Refinery will conform to Euro V specs.
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