Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has begun exporting fuel across Africa after reaching full production, shipping about a dozen cargoes to markets as far as Tanzania.
The shipment of about 456,000 tons of petroleum products represents less than a fifth of the plant’s monthly output. The facility owned by billionaire Aliko Dangote ramped up processing crude to its full nameplate capacity of 650,000 barrels a day last month, the company said.
The exports will supply African countries seeking alternatives following disruptions to fuel flows from the Middle East after the start of the Iran war in late February. The plant is the continent’s biggest refinery and in part helps fill a gap following the closure of other processors in the past two decades.
The Dangote Refinery will help “enhance energy security in West, East and Central Africa, reducing logistics and supply chain delays associated with long-distance fuel imports,” Dangote said in a statement.
The shipments were sold for delivery to Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana, Togo and Tanzania, according to the statement.
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