The governor said the decision is to the advantage of the state and will lead to real growth and development in the Lekki area and the state in particular.
Browsing: Dangote Refinery
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Simbi Wabote, says the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery project is an actualisation of Local Content development in Nigeria.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, made the pledge in a statement issued by Samson Makoji, the Acting Spokesman for the Nigerian National Corporation in Abuja on Monday.
This was revealed on Monday by the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Male Kyari
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Malam Mele Kyari, says the corporation is not in contest for market share with the forthcoming Dangote Refinery.
Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical has so far awarded $368 million to 120 local contractors at the site as part of its contribution to Nigeria content development initiative.
Dangote Refinery, currently under construction, has been described as a project that would assist Nigeria’s quest of attaining 1.095 million barrels per day self-sufficiency in the refining of petroleum products.
Impressed by the vastness of the Dangote Refinery currently under construction in Lagos, Nigeria, the High Commissioner of the United Republic of Tanzania to Nigeria, Muhidini Ally Mboweto, has sought the assistance of the Africa’s foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote, in the development of his country’s energy sector, specifically petroleum.
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has allayed the anxiety being nurtured by residents of Lekki-Epe axis over the imminent traffic gridlock to be brought by the operations of Dangote Refinery at the corridor.
Nigeria and other African countries would soon heave a sigh of relief from the sloppy economic situation occasioned by price instability with the imminent completion of the Dangote Refinery and other modular refineries in Nigeria.
The Federal Government will start sourcing foreign exchange from Dangote Group as soon as the latter’s refinery, petrochemicals and fertilizer projects come on stream.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, said this on Sunday during an inspection of Dangote Refinery in Lagos.
Devakumar Edwin, Group Executive Director, Dangote Refinery, said on Tuesday that the planned 650,000 barrel per day capacity petrochemical refinery would transform and diversify Nigeria’s economy when completed.
The project will put Nigeria on the global map as major oil and gas hub in Africa, the Group Executive Director, Devakumar Edwin, has hinted
Alhaji Debo Ahmed, the Chairman, Western Zone of IPMAN, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the refinery would address the lingering crisis of importing refined products into the country.
The MoU was signed on Wednesday
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council in Abuja on Wednesday
The engineers, who described their experience as second to none in the history of Nigeria oil and gas sector, said never again would Nigeria experience fuel scarcity as the Dangote refinery would be operated in the most efficient manner
The Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Co-operatives, Prince Rotimi Ogunleye, gave the warning while on a tour of the 16,347 hectares Lekki Free Zone project.
He said the refinery’s daily production capacity would be 150 per cent of the current total demand of petroleum products in the country, saying that the excess would be exported to other countries