The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is awaiting up to 12 million barrels of crude oil from the United States, the Africa Report reported on Monday.
The refinery resorted to crude importation as local supply challenges hindered the new $20bn refinery’s push to reach full refining capacity.
Recall that the refinery plans to reach its 650,000 barrels per day capacity in June this year.
However, low local crude supply from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is currently a challenge to this plan to ramp up daily production.
The 12 million barrels of crude has already left the United States and will land in Nigeria next month, according to the report.
“About 12 million barrels of crude have departed the US and should arrive in Nigeria by February,” an insider source told The Africa Report.
