Dangote Refinery Refutes Import Claims, Says Allegations Are False and Deceptive

… Reaffirms Dedication to Delivering Euro‑Customary Gas to Nigerians

Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals (DPRP) has firmly denied stories suggesting that it imports completed petroleum merchandise, describing the claims as incorrect and primarily based on a misunderstanding of world refinery operations.

As a state‑of‑the‑artwork, giant‑scale service provider refinery, DPRP refines crude oil and processes intermediate feedstocks into premium petroleum merchandise and petrochemicals that meet the best worldwide requirements.

Talking throughout a media briefing on the refinery, the Chief Government Officer and Managing Director, David Hen, defined that processing intermediate or semi‑processed supplies is a normal apply throughout the world refining trade. He clarified that this apply doesn’t quantity to importing completed petroleum merchandise.

Hen highlighted that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery operates utilizing a European and Asian service provider refinery mannequin, which integrates superior refining, mixing and buying and selling methods designed to satisfy fashionable high quality and environmental benchmarks.

“DPRP produces excessive‑high quality fuels aligned with worldwide environmental and well being requirements. Our gasoline is lead‑free and MMT‑free with 50 components per million sulphur, whereas our diesel meets extremely‑low sulphur specs. These requirements assist scale back emissions, shield engines, and safeguard public well being,” Hen acknowledged.

He reaffirmed that the Dangote Refinery provides solely totally refined, market‑prepared merchandise, including that semi‑completed fuels are unsuitable for autos and are due to this fact not launched into the Nigerian market. Samples of each intermediate feedstocks and totally refined merchandise have been exhibited to journalists throughout the briefing.

Hen additional famous that the refinery was established to finish years of publicity to substandard gas in Nigeria by offering merchandise that meet stringent world requirements. He added that DPRP’s merchandise are actually exported to worldwide markets, highlighting their high quality and competitiveness.

Intermediate supplies—resembling naphtha, straight‑run fuel oil, vacuum fuel oil (VGO), reformate, alkylate and isomerate—function feedstock for added refining into completed fuels like petrol and diesel, in addition to petrochemicals.

Hen harassed the refinery’s dedication to transparency in its operations and engagements with regulators. He urged the media to assist correctly educate the general public on the clear distinction between intermediate merchandise and completed gas.

“It’s unlucky that some people are intentionally spreading deceptive narratives a few refinery that has reworked Nigeria and the West African area from a dumping floor for substandard fuels right into a hub for top‑high quality merchandise,” he mentioned.

He added that the refinery’s versatile design permits it to course of a various mixture of crude oils and intermediate feedstocks into premium completed fuels.

Hen assured Nigerians of sustained product availability, noting that the refinery has contributed considerably to easing gas shortage, stabilising the naira, and decreasing strain on international trade.

Group Chief Model and Communications Officer of Dangote Industries Restricted, Anthony Chiejina, urged journalists to be exact of their selection of terminology, warning that wrong reporting might misinform the general public and create pointless panic.