Two Chinese firms; Harbor Engineering Co (Nigeria) and China’s Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) have commenced the construction of a subsea pipeline installation to connect Nigeria's Dangote Refinery in Lagos.
The groundbreaking for the construction was performed at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, where the refinery company is located on Friday.
The pipeline project is part of Dangote’s $17 billion gas pipeline, fertilizer, petrochemicals, and refinery projects under construction and proposed to be ready by 2019.
The pipeline project is part of Dangote’s $17 billion gas pipeline, fertilizer, petrochemicals, and refinery projects under construction and proposed to be ready by 2019.
The work-scope includes transportation and installation of nine sub-sea pipelines with a total length of 100 kilometers in water depths of up to 40 meters. Of the pipelines, six are 24-inch diameter and three are 48-inch.
The Chinese contractors will also install five single point mooring systems, a catenary anchor leg mooring buoy weighing 240 tonnes and pipeline end manifold carrying a total weight of 220 tonnes for a shuttle tanker that imports crude for the refinery.
The Chinese contractors will also install five single point mooring systems, a catenary anchor leg mooring buoy weighing 240 tonnes and pipeline end manifold carrying a total weight of 220 tonnes for a shuttle tanker that imports crude for the refinery.
Dangote Refinery currently under construction would save Nigeria 12 billion U.S. dollars annual import substitution, create 4,000 direct jobs and crash prices of petroleum products.
The project would add value to the economy as it would also create 145,000 indirect jobs.
The refinery will have the capacity to refine 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day while the petrochemical plant will produce 780 KTPA Polypropylene, 500 KTPA of Polyethylene while the fertiliser project will produce 3.0 million metric tonnes per annum of Urea.
The 650,000-barrels-per-day refinery will come on stream by September 2019, according to officials of the company.
The refinery will have the capacity to refine 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day while the petrochemical plant will produce 780 KTPA Polypropylene, 500 KTPA of Polyethylene while the fertiliser project will produce 3.0 million metric tonnes per annum of Urea.
The 650,000-barrels-per-day refinery will come on stream by September 2019, according to officials of the company.
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