Oil Refinery Has License to Process Nigerian Crude, Dangote Says - Bloomberg
Oil Refinery Has License to Process Nigerian Crude, Dangote Says - Bloomberg
Giant Dangote Refinery Secures Permit to Process Nigerian Oil
- Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, speaks in interview
- Refinery has track record of missing production targets
Billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, said his refinery has secured a license to refine more than 300,000 barrels of Nigerian crude per day and will begin to process gasoline “soon.”
“We don’t want to start our refinery with foreign goods, we want to start with the Nigerian crude,” the billionaire said in an interview Saturday in Riyadh on the sidelines of the Saudi-Nigeria business roundtable. “We’re more than ready and you will see our gasoline products soon.”
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