XCMG Construction Machinery has been engaged to work together with Dangote Industries Limited on the world’s largest oil refinery project located at Lekki Free Zone in Lagos.
The construction machinery manufacturer, has accordingly, deployed a team of 81 engineers and technicians to work on the construction of the Dangote Refinery.
The team will provide end-to-end, round-the-clock service to facilitate more than 2,500 units of construction machinery equipment.
Built with an investment of nearly $35.38 billion, the Dangote Refinery project covers an area of 250,000 hectares. Phases I and II of the project is expected to be completed by 2022.
Once in full operation, the refinery will produce gasoline and other petrochemical products such as polyethylene and polypropylene.
“The refined oil output of the Dangote Refinery will be able to fulfill the gasoline demand in Nigeria sufficiently, even meeting West Africa’s demand for refined oil, freeing Nigeria from its dependence on oil imports,” said Jiansen Liu, vice president of XCMG and general manager of XCMG Import and Export Company.
Nigeria, the largest oil-producing country in Africa, currently has four operating oil refineries, but practically non-operational.
