– The Refinery is powered by a 435 MW Power Plant.
– At full capacity, it can meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have surplus for export.
– Designed for 100% Nigerian Crude with flexibility to process other crudes.
– Self-sufficient marine facility with ability for freight optimisation. Largest single order of 5 SPMs anywhere in the world.
-Diesel & gasoline from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications.
– The refinery design complies with World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) emission/effluent norms.
– It incorporates state-of-the-art technology.
– 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.
– About 65 million cubic metres of sand dredged, costing approximately €300 million, using the world’s largest dredgers.
– Over 1,200 units of various equipment were bought to enhance the local capacity for site works.
– Dangote Group bought 332 cranes to build up equipment installation capacity.
-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).
-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.
-Constructed two more quays in the port with a capacity to handle up to Panamax vessels to export, two quays to handle liquid cargoes.
-The port will have 6 quays, including a roll-on/roll-off quay.
-In the course of the civil works, 700 piles were drilled on some days, with total number of piles up to 250,000.
– It has 177 tanks of 4.742 billion litres capacity
– 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.
– 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.