Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery cancels June maintenance at gasoline unit
Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery has cancelled June maintenance at its 204,000-bpd gasoline-making unit as it completed planned works during an unplanned shutdown from April 7 to May 11, according to industry monitor IIR.
During the unplanned outage, the Dangote refinery increased exports of residual products such as straight run fuel oil, while exports of finished products such as jet fuel and gasoil dropped, according to shipping trade analytics firm Kpler.
Nigeria's gasoline imports rose by 24% on the month in April to 157,000 bpd, Kpler data show.
Dangote had initially planned to shut its gasoline-making residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit for 30-day maintenance in June.
The 650,000-bpd refinery built by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote in Lagos began processing crude into products, including gasoil, naphtha and jet fuel, in January 2024 and started producing gasoline in September.
"We have completed the maintenance and we have started," a Dangote refinery executive said, referring to the RFCC unit.
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