The Dangote Group has begun installing equipment in the Dangote Oil Refining Company
This comes shortly after the Dangote noodles company was sold to makers of Indomie noodles, Dufil Prima
The 650,000-barrels-per-day refinery will come on stream by September 2019 according to officials of the company
The Dangote Oil Refining Company (DORC) Limited has announced that the installation of equipment for the crude oil refinery being built in the Lekki area of Lagos will begin this month.
Mr Rama Putta, the Head of Quality Assurance/Quality Compliance and Construction, DORC, Mr Rama Putta, has said that the 650,000-barrels-per-day refinery will come on stream by September 2019.
Speaking on the construction work, Mr Putta said the sand filling of the site was completed six months ago, adding that 60 per cent of the land was swampy.
The Dangote refinery is one of the biggest projects in the world, costing about $12bn
The greatest challenge according to him was bringing the land to three metres above the mean sea level, he said: “The sand is tightly compacted and ready for the installation of the equipment. No flood can affect our area. The surrounding area is only one metre above the mean sea level. The entire Lagos is only 1.5 metres above the main sea level.
“We dredged sand from the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 million cubic metres. The world’s biggest dredgers dredged the sand for about 18 months. It’s a big job and is completed successfully. Now, what is left is to put up the equipment.”
According to The Punch, Putta also stated: “We need a lot of big cranes. All the equipment are going to come horizontally; they are to be put vertically. That is why to lift them, we need cranes. We need 300 cranes; 250 cranes are already here. The remaining cranes are coming from China.
“We will start putting up the refinery equipment in a week or 10 days’ time, and it will take about 15 to 20 months.”
He also said: “Out of that, more than 200 have already come in. They come in semi-finished shape and we will finish them off. The remaining are being manufactured in various countries, including China, India, America, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia.
“The challenge is bringing heavy equipment. There are 300 very heavy equipment and we have given contracts to the biggest shippers in the world to bring them from different countries.”
“We have a jetty. All the materials coming from various countries come by ship and they get unloaded at the Apapa ports. From the Apapa port, they come here by road. Some of the equipment are very big, more than 2,000 metric tonnes, and they cannot come by road. We bring them from Apapa to our jetty by ship and we unload them.
“This refinery is going to operate at 110 per cent of its capacity at the minimum. If you don’t make 110 per cent, your profit is only 15 per cent. Majority of the refineries in the world like American refineries, Korean refineries and some Indian refineries operate at more than 105 per cent.”
According to him, the company will begin the trading of petroleum products next year ahead of the completion of the refinery.
Meanwhile, Aliko Dangote celebrated his 60th birthday on April 10, 2017. In attendance were his billionaire counterparts Femi Otedola and Davido’s dad Dr Adedeji Adeleke as well as Mo Abudu.
NAIJ.com also spotted King Sunny Ade and other entertainers like Davido, PSquare and Jimmy Jatt who all performed to the delight of the guests.
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