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World’s largest single-train oil refinery opens in Lagos, Nigeria
[INDENT]The completion of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals in Lagos State is a groundbreaking event, one that brings great pride to Nigeria, with great prospects of helping the nation experience transformations in the petroleum sector.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday commission the plant which is arguably Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the worlds biggest simple-train facility.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]There is no doubt that this venture will create more employment opportunities for Nigeria’s teeming population.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Beyond this, here are 19 facts about the refinery that everyone interested should know.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]1. It is located in Ibeju, Lagos, Covering a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]2. World’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels per day Petroleum Refinery with 900 KTPA Polypropylene Plant.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]3. The Refinery is powered by a 435 MW Power Plant.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]4. At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for export.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]5. Designed for 100% Nigerian Crude with flexibility to process other crudes.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]6. Self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimisation. Largest single order of 5 SPMs anywhere in the world.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]7. Diesel & gasoline from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]8. The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission/effluent norms.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]9. It incorporates state-of-the-art technology.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]10. It is designed to process large variety of crudes including many of the African Crudes, some of the Middle Eastern Crudes and the US Light Tight Oil.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]11. About 65 million cubic metres of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]12. Over 1,200 units of various equipment were bought to enhance the local capacity for site works.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]13. Dangote Group bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]14. Also built is the world’s largest granite quarry to supply coarse aggregate, stone column material, stone base, stone dust & material for break water (10 million tonnes per year production capacity).[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]15. In a bid to bring over dimensional cargoes close to the site directly, Dangote Group had to developed a port and constructed two quays with a load bearing capacity of 25 tonnes/sq metre.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]16. Constructed two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export, two quays to handle liquid cargoes.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]17. The port will have 6 quays, including a roll-on/roll-off quay.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]18. In the course of the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, with total number of piles up to 250,000.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]19. It has 177 tanks of 4.742 billion litres capacity[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]20. Dangote is one of the few companies in the world executing a Petroleum Refinery and a Petrochemical complex directly as an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Contractor.[/INDENT]
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[INDENT]21. Training of 900 young engineers in refinery operations abroad. Mechanical Engineers trained in the GE University in Italy. Process engineers trained by Honeywell/UOP for six months.[/INDENT]
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https://www.channelstv.com/2023/05/21/groundbreaker-21-facts-about-dangote-refinery-to-be-commissioned-on-monday/