“There are quite a lot of challenges, but we’re moving,” Dangote told reporters at a conference in Paris about the plant, which is being built near Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and designed to process 650,000 barrels of crude daily. “We’re still targeting next year for commissioning.”
The 61-year-old said he will export about 35 per cent of the refinery’s products, while the rest will serve the local market. His Dangote Industries Ltd. said last year the plan is to produce about 50 million litres (13.2 million gallons) a day of gasoline and 15 million litres of diesel, though output can be changed according to demand. The company has been in talks with oil traders including Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Vitol Group and Trafigura Group Pte about them supplying crude and buying refined fuel.
Analysts have questioned whether Dangote, worth $10.8 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index, will be able to complete such a massive project on time and within costs. Edinburgh-based Wood Mackenzie doesn’t see the refinery starting production until 2022.
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The complex will include a $2.5 billion fertilizer factory with a capacity of 3 million metric tons annually, set to be ready this year, and a petrochemical plant. They will be powered by gas, which will be sent from the Niger River delta via two 550-kilometer (341-mile) underwater pipelines, also costing Dangote about $2.5 billion.
“By next year, we’ll be exporting almost 2 million metric tons of urea and ammonia,” Dangote said.
Here's How Much The CBN Will Provide for The Project
Nigeria’s apex bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is set to provide a financial facility for the ongoing Dangote Refinery project, to the tune of N75 billion.
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja while answering questions from journalists during the just concluded Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.
While the nature of the financial facility is not exactly clear at the moment, Mr Emefiele did mention that Aliko Dangote has already invested about 50% of the $9 billion dollars needed to complete the project . The remaining 50% will be sourced as loans from both local and foreign lenders.
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