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Dangote refinery builds eight more tanks for imported crude
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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is building eight more tanks in its bid to have enough storage for imported crude oil.
A report by Africa Report has it that the refinery is ramping up its storage capacity by 6.29 million barrels, equivalent to 1 billion litres.
The report stated that the $20bn refinery is planning to stockpile imported crude oil as local supplies became unreliable.
Officials of the refinery were quoted as saying that low crude supply from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited “is driving import dependence.”
The building of eight additional tanks will see crude storage capacity at the $20bn refinery jump by 41.67 per cent to 3.4 billion litres.
“Importing crude from other countries instead of buying locally means that our crude stockpiles will have to be higher,” the Vice President in charge of oil and gas business at Dangote Industries, Devakumar Edwin, was quoted as having said.
“So we have started building eight additional crude tanks to hold a billion litres, over and above our original storage capacity. Four of them are nearing completion,” Edwin added.
The refinery currently has 20 crude storage tanks with a capacity of 120 million litres each, totalling 2.4 billion litres.
Its refined product tanks have a total capacity of 2.34 billion litres.
Dangote began producing diesel and aviation fuel in January 2024, and petrol in September, with products supplied to the domestic market and exported to several countries.
Edwin described the supply of crude oil from the NNPC to the Dangote refinery as “still very low”.
Nigeria, which is Africa’s biggest oil producer, was importing its fuels until last year when the Dangote refinery came on stream.
Today, the NNPC’s Warri and Port Harcourt refineries have resumed operations, indicating that the company would have to supply crude to the two facilities aside from the percentage committed to servicing its loans.
Nigeria has continued to contend with underinvestment and production outages caused largely by theft and pipeline vandalism, which have seen it lose its top spot in Africa several times in recent years.
However, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission said last month that crude is 1.45 million barrels per day as of November, 99 per cent of its 1.5mbpd OPEC quota.
The PUNCH reports that Dangote’s decision to expand storage facilities for imported crude could be an indication that the naira-for-crude deal ordered by President Bola Tinubu might be fading out gradually.
Before President Bola Tinubu ordered the sale of crude to Dangote refinery in August, the facility had battled months of crude shortage.
The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, accused international oil companies of plans to sabotage the refinery by refusing to supply crude oil.
On July 29, the Federal Executive Council approved a proposal by Tinubu for the NNPC to sell crude oil to local refineries in naira.
It approved that the 450,000 barrels meant for domestic consumption be offered in naira to the refineries, using the Dangote refinery as a pilot.
The implementation of the initiative started on 1 October, with the NNPC expected to commence the supply of about 385,000 bpd of crude oil to the Dangote refinery to be paid for in naira.
Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Industries, said in December that the naira-for-crude deal has led to a reduction in prices of petroleum products in the country
At the moment, the Dangote refinery is ramping up production as its petrol gathers momentum among Nigerian vehicle owners.
The Accord Party has defeated the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the polling unit of former Osun Deputy Governor and ex-APC National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, in the ongoing Osun State governorship election.
According to results uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Result Viewing Portal (IReV), Accord secured 131 votes at Polling Unit 003, Ife Ward 1 (Moore), St. Gabriel Primary School, in Ife East Local Government Area.
The APC polled 85 votes to finish second, while the African Democratic Congress (ADC) recorded 10 votes. Other political parties obtained marginal votes at the polling unit.
The result adds to a series of early victories recorded by the Accord Party as INEC continues the uploading and collation of results across the state.
Earlier, Accord also won at the polling unit of former Osun Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, in Okuku, Odo-Otin Local Government Area.
The result sheet uploaded on the IReV portal showed Accord polling 125 votes, ahead of the APC, which recorded 85 votes. The ADC secured five votes.
Meanwhile, INEC has continued to upload results from polling units across Osun State as the governorship election moves into the collation stage.
Voters across the state’s 30 local government areas cast their ballots on Saturday to elect a governor for the next four years.
The major contenders in the election include the incumbent Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party, APC candidate Bola Oyebamiji, and African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate Najeem Salaam.
The Accord Party has won the governorship election at the polling unit of former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, in Okuku, Odo-Otin Local Government Area of the state.
According to the result sheet uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) IReV portal, Accord polled 125 votes to emerge victorious at the polling unit.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) came second with 85 votes, while the African Democratic Congress (ADC) secured five votes.
The African Action Congress (AAC) scored two votes, while the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Young Progressive Party (YPP) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) each recorded one vote.
Other parties, including the AA, ADP, APGA, APM, APP, BP, NNPP and PRP, recorded no votes.
The result sheet showed that 228 voters were accredited, with 220 valid votes cast and eight rejected ballots.
The election was conducted at Court Hall I, Okuku, in Odo-Otin Local Government Area.
The result comes against the backdrop of Oyinlola’s reported endorsement of the APC governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, ahead of the election.
Oyinlola, who governed Osun State from 2003 to 2010, had publicly backed Oyebamiji despite the APC candidate running against incumbent Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The outcome at Oyinlola’s polling unit therefore puts the Accord Party ahead of the APC, with Adeleke’s party failing to secure the unit despite the incumbent governor’s participation in the election.
Voting was disrupted in Ejigbo, Osun State, after violence broke out at a polling unit during the ongoing Osun State Governorship election.
It was gathered that voters, residents and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fled the polling unit as tension escalated around the area.
According to Channels TV, people were seen running in different directions while motorcycles and vehicles moved through the area as residents attempted to escape the unfolding situation.
The immediate cause of the violence was not clear, as the chaos temporarily halted the ongoing electoral process.
The incident comes as voters come out in their numbers to partake in governorship election amid tight security.
Osun Election: Accord Defeats APC in Omisore’s Polling Unit
Osun election: Oyinlola Loses Polling Unit to Accord Party
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