Dangote Set To Install Major Refinery Equipment

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE

With the arrival of the Fluid Catalytic Cracking, FCC equipment for Dangote Oil Refinery Company Limited, the company is now prepared to install the monstrous-looking, but a very important device.

In a statement on Monday, the company’s management said the equipment will serve the refinery which is expected to produce about 650,000 barrels of crude per day upon completion.

The Fluid catalytic cracking equipment serves the purpose of converting the high-boiling, high-molecular-weight, hydrocarbon fractions of petroleum crude oils into more valuable gasoline gases and other products.

As expected, the Refinery owner, Alhaji Aliko Dangote was present to receive the equipment.

In a video released over the weekend showing the equipment being delivered at the Dangote Jetty in Lekki, Lagos, Dangote was seen alongside Zenith Bank Plc’s Chairman, Mr. Jim Ovia, the Chairman of Execujet Services Limited, Mr. Sam Iwuajoku, and the CEO of Dangote Oil Refinery Company, Mr. Giuseppe Surace.

The Dangote Refinery is being constructed in such a way that it can effectively refine different grades of local and internationally-sourced crude into PMS and other petroleum products like kerosene, diesel, and even aviation fuel.

Besides the single-train residual fluid catalytic cracking unit, the refinery will also have a crude distillation unit, a diesel hydrotreating unit, a continuous catalyst regeneration unit, a polypropylene unit, and an alkylation unit.

As part of measures to ensure the refinery is ready ahead of its 2022 launch date, the company has continued to silently ship in heavy-duty equipment through its specially-designed Dangote Jetty which is situated at the Lekki FTZ.

Last year, a 132 metres long general cargo ship arrived at the Dangote Jetty, carrying numerous equipment needed for the refinery.