Nigeria’s NNPC Allocates Four February Crude Oil Cargoes To Dangote

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Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC is expected to supply four crude cargoes from its February programme to the $20 billion Dangote refinery, which is poised to begin operations after years of construction delays, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

What will be Africa’s biggest refinery has said it could begin test runs as early as this week, adding that it has received six initial crude cargoes.

OPEC member Nigeria currently relies on imports for most of the fuel it consumes, but the Dangote refinery is expected to make it self-sufficient and able to export fuel to neighbours in West Africa, potentially transforming oil trading in the Atlantic Basin.

Dangote received 1 million barrels of Nigeria’s Agbami crude on Monday, lifting total volumes received since December to 6 million barrels.

NNPC supplied the 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) plant with four of the cargoes, two of the sources said.

A spokesperson for NNPC declined to comment.

Dangote’s group executive director for strategy, portfolio development and capital projects, Edwin Devakumar, said the company did not request cargoes from NNPC for January.

“We are starting the refinery and if we continue to line up cargoes our inventory will build up as well as costs,” he said. “If everything goes well, we will run for 8-10 days of operation then we will begin to line up cargoes.”

The refinery is also looking at crude supplies from other countries, he said without disclosing further detail.

One of the sources said that the refinery has nominated four NNPC cargoes for February.

A second source said that NNPC wanted to wait for the plant’s test runs before sending more oil.

Initial processing capacity is expected to reach 350,000 bpd, with the aim of ramping up to full capacity by the end of the year, Dangote said. Reuters

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