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Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals has processed crude oil at 700,000 barrels per day, clearing its own nameplate capacity by 50,000 barrels in a performance test conducted by independent process licensors.
The result, disclosed by the refinery, cements its standing as the world’s largest single-train petroleum refinery, a title it has held since commissioning but is now, for the first time, backing with hard throughput numbers.
Nigeria has for decades been a paradox: one of Africa’s top crude producers and, simultaneously, a country that spent billions importing refined fuel it could not make at home.
Dangote’s refinery, planted on a 2,635-hectare plot at Lekki Free Zone outside Lagos, was built as the direct answer to that embarrassment. Whether it fully delivers on that promise is still being written, but 700,000 barrels a day is a credible opening argument.
Devakumar Edwin, vice-president for oil and
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