Ghana's planned $6 billion 200,000 barrels per day New Alpha refinery has secured a 20,000 barrels-per-day take-off deal in Nigeria, and is also looking to China for funds, a senior executive said on Monday.
Expected to come on stream by 2015, the new refinery, which would be the biggest in West Africa, was designed to serve the local Ghanaian market, and also target the continent's top oil producer, where attacks and lack of infrastructure had severely crimped the Nigerian crude and refined oil products output.
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