Dangote Refinery to ban fuel sales to petrol importers, marketers

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has said it is considering restricting the merchantability of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS to large marketers that proceed to import petrol into Nigeria, amid concerns implicit merchandise quality, marketplace transparency and the integrity of products supplied nether the Dangote brand.

The projected measure, which could instrumentality effect arsenic aboriginal arsenic this week, taxable to further consultations and immoderate last-minute intervention, reflects increasing concerns implicit the continued introduction of imported PMS into a marketplace wherever important home refining capableness is present available.

Sources acquainted with the refinery’s presumption said the contiguous interest relates to the information that immoderate marketers are blending substandard imported PMS with products purchased from Dangote Refinery earlier distributing the blended merchandise to the market.

The refinery is acrophobic that specified practices could marque it hard to separate betwixt products supplied straight by the refinery and products subsequently blended oregon handled by 3rd parties.

“It is hard to recognize wherefore we would put heavy successful producing high-quality petroleum products for Nigerians, lone for those products to beryllium mixed with imported products of uncertain prime and the resulting pro...