President Muhammadu Buhari, President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and some African leaders are to grace the inauguration of the multi-billion Naira Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical company holding today in Lagos.
The Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr Anthony Chiejina, had earlier announced the date of the event.
The facility is expected to produce 650,000 barrels per day with the cost of completion pegged at 19 billion dollars.
The 650,000 barrels per day refinery is expected to boost the federal government’s effort to make Nigeria self-sufficient.
The Dangote Refinery complex located in the Lekki Free Zone area of Lagos, covers a land area of approximately 2,635 hectares, which is larger than the entire Victoria Island.
The refinery is the biggest in Africa and also the biggest single-train facility in the world.
A single-train refinery uses an integrated distillation unit or one Crude Distillation Unit, CDU, to refine crude oil into various petroleum products.
This is against the use of multiple distillation units by most big refineries.
