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Nigeria: As Covid-19 Delays Dangote Refinery - Oil Import Takes Toll On Earnings
Daily Trust, 27 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the completion of the Dangote Refinery and also crippled a critical segment of the Ebute-Metta to Apapa segment of the Lagos to Ibadan rail… Read more »
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Africa: Africa's Largest Oil Refinery Opens Next Year
CAJ News, 10 August 2020
AFRICA'S largest oil refinery, which is anticipated to be the biggest single-train structure, is set to be opened early next year. Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigerian Regulators Trade Blame As Killer Fuels Dominate Country's Oil Business
Premium Times, 25 July 2020
While various scientific research results have linked annual deaths of more than 100,000 Nigerians to air pollution, partly caused by the dirty fuel imported into the country by… Read more »
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Nigeria: Petrol, Diesel From Europe Dirtier Than Fuel From Illegal Refineries - Report
Premium Times, 2 July 2020
Black market fuel made from stolen oil in rudimentary "bush" refineries hidden deep in the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta is less polluting than the highly toxic diesel and… Read more »
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Africa: We Need a Total Fossil Fuel Lockdown for a Climate Revolution
UNEP, 16 June 2020
Growth in renewable power has been impressive over the past five years. But too little is happening in heating, cooling and transport. Overall, global hunger for energy keeps… Read more »
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Nigeria: Investigation - Officials Indifferent As Dangote Refinery Violated Lockdown Rules
Premium Times, 26 May 2020
The Nigerian government may have deliberately ignored the violation of its lockdown order by the Dangote Group in Lagos at the site of what the latter plans to be Africa's biggest… Read more »
Building Africa's Largest Oil Refinery Has Share of Challenges
Sometimes the best plans can be thwarted, particularly when the world is in the grip of a pandemic such as Covid-19. Africa's richest man, Nigerian Aliko Dangote's plan to provide Nigeria with the continent's largest oil refinery so that the black gold can be cleaned in Lagos, has been hampered in its progress - first with the shortage of steel to build the refinery, and now the pandemic which has slowed down industries worldwide. The refinery's aim is to be bring to an end Nigeria's heavy dependence on the importation of petroleum products for domestic consumption. Dangote officials maintain that the deadline for early 2021 will be reached. Time will tell.
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The state of refineries and the importing of petroleum products are two areas that Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ... Read more »
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has said that 15 oil firms have won bids to extract crude oil for a period of one year. The agreement was under the 2019/2020 Direct ... Read more »
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Nigeria has been relying solely on crude oil as its major source of revenue. Now the government has said unfolding events of the past few months, the coronavirus pandemic and the Read more »
