Dangote Refinery imports first crude from UAE

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has purchased 2 cargoes of crude lipid from the United Arab Emirates, UAE.

S&P Global Commodity Insights reports that the latest crude import from the UAE is the first-ever procurement of Middle Eastern crude arsenic the works expands its feedstock sources amid persistent home proviso constraints from Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.

The refinery, designed chiefly to process Nigeria’s airy saccharine crude, has progressively diversified its crude slate arsenic operations ramp up optimally.

According to S&P Global, the refinery has been broadening the scope of crude grades it processes arsenic portion of its ambition to run arsenic a afloat merchant refinery. The study said that successful 2025, astir 70 per cent of the refinery’s crude imports came from Nigeria, portion 24 per cent originated from the United States.

Recall that the NNPCL had guaranteed the proviso of betwixt 13 and 15 cargoes of Nigerian crude monthly successful naira successful an statement called the naira-for-crude deal, helping the refinery trim its overseas speech exposure.

However, contempt the deal, home crude proviso to the mega-refinery had been facing constraints.

Speaking earlier this year, Bird said the refinery intended to inc...