President Buhari to inaugurate Dangote Refinery, May 22

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari will inaugurate the Dangote Refinery established by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, on May 22, an aide to the president has said.

Bashir Ahmad in a tweet on his Twitter  handle, said, “efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil to save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products have received a boost as the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery, the world’s largest single-train refinery, is set for inauguration on May 22nd, 2023, by President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The Dangote Refinery complex is located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos. The refinery is the biggest in Africa and also the biggest single-train refinery in the world.

A single-train refinery uses an integrated distillation unit or one crude distillation unit to refine crude oil into various petroleum products, as against the use of multiple distillation units by most big refineries.

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