Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, “We are expanding the Dangote Refinery from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day,” Dangote said. “When completed, this will be the largest refinery ever built at a single site, surpassing India’s Jamnagar refinery.”
Dangote announced the plans on Sunday and said that the project was an endorsement of President Bola Tinubu’s industrialisation agenda and his push to make Nigeria a net exporter of refined petroleum products.
“This expansion reflects our belief in Africa’s potential and our commitment to building energy independence for our continent,” he said.
Dangote disclosed that the expansion will be completed by 2028, with construction leveraging existing infrastructure such as ports, land, and logistics systems established during the refinery’s first phase.
“It will take much less time this round because we already have the foundation — the port, the land, the pipelines,” Dangote said. “We know where all the challenges lie from experience.”
Nigeria currently pumps about 1.8 million bpd, below its OPEC quota, but Dangote said the government’s target of 2.4 million bpd would provide enough supply to serve both domestic refiners and exports.