Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Refinery, has announced the intention to expand its 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery to become the world’s largest at 1.4 million barrels per day.
He disclosed this at a briefing in Lagos on Sunday.
He noted that if the expansion is achieved, his refinery would topple the Jamnagar Refinery in India, with 1,240,000 barrels per day, as the largest refinery in the world.
According to him, the facility will also expand the production of polypropylene from 900,000 metric tonnes to 2.4 million metric tonnes per annum.
Dangote, however, did not give details of the timeline or how he and his team intend to achieve the ambitious feat.
