Dangote refinery, Africa’s largest, has increased export of petrol and urea to African countries hit by supply disruptions caused by the Iran war, its owner, Aliko Dangote said yesterday.
Dangote said the refinery, operating at its maximum capacity of 650,000 barrels a day, had helped cushion the effect of the crisis both in Nigeria and across the continent, a Reuters report said.
“What I can do is assure Nigerians … and most of West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa, we have the capacity to supply them,” Dangote said during a tour of the refinery on the edge of commercial capital Lagos.
He said the facility had shipped some 17 cargoes of petrol to other African nations and exports of urea fertiliser had also recently risen, as buyers sought alternative sources of supply.