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The Federal Government has urged Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote group, to make sure that he achieves his target of ending fuel importation in the country by December 2019.
Minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, made the call when he visited the Dangote oil refinery site at Lekki free trade zone, Lagos state, on yesterday.
He said there would be more chances of meeting the 2019 target if the group is able to complete its refinery before the date.
He also said the government was ready to play its part as a responsible government to assist in making sure the project is completed before the scheduled date.
Kachikwu stated he has made a very firm commitment to Nigerians that importation of petroleum products will stop by 2019.
Responding, Dangote said with the minister’s assurance of government’s cooperation and support, the company would do all it could to complete the refinery in due time.
He said the company would go back to the drawing board and see what to do to make the target come to fruition “by fast tracking our processes.”
Dangote said the group is building the world’s largest single line refinery, the largest sub-sea pipeline infrastructure, petrochemical complex as well as the world’s second largest urea fertiliser plant.
He said the refinery, when completed, will have the capacity to refine 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day with the petrochemical plant producing 780 KTPA polypropylene, 500 KTPA of polyethylene while the fertiliser project will produce 3.0 million metric tonnes of urea per annum (mmtpa).