SaharaReporters earlier reported the fire outbreak at the facility but could not immediately ascertain its cause.
The management of Dangote Refinery says it has contained a fire incident that occurred on Wednesday at the multi-billion-dollar facility in the Lekki Free Zone in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre.
SaharaReporters earlier reported the fire outbreak at the facility but could not immediately ascertain its cause.
A video of the fire incident shared on several social media platforms, seen by SaharaReporters shows a thick dark smoke rising from what appears to be one of the tanks in the facility.
A statement signed by Anthony Chiejina, Group Head of Corporate Communications Dangote Group Nigeria, on behalf of the company shortly after the incident, said, “We have swiftly contained a minor fire incident at our effluent treatment plant (ETP), today Wednesday 26thof June.
“There is no cause for alarm as the refinery is operating and there is no recorded injury or body harm to all our staff on duty.”
Dangote Oil Refinery is a 650,000 barrels per day (BPD) integrated refinery project.
Owned by Dangote Group, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery was inaugurated on the 22nd of May 2023 in Lekki, Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Dangote Industries Limited’s (DIL) Vice President of Oil and Gas, Devakumar Edwin, recently alleged that International Oil Companies (IOCs) in Nigeria were deliberately undermining the Dangote Oil Refinery and Petrochemicals project, actively working against its success.
During a recent training program for Energy Editors hosted by the Dangote Group, Edwin revealed that IOCs were hindering the refinery’s attempts to procure local crude oil by artificially inflating prices, compelling the refinery to import crude from distant nations like the United States, thereby increasing production costs.
