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Dangote postpones petrol supply date to July

Dangote refinery would no longer be able to release Premium Motor Spirit popularly referred to as petrol into the Nigerian market this June.

Speaking on Monday to news, the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said the shift in date was due to some minor challenges.

According to him, the petrol from the 650,000 barrels per day capacity refinery will be out by July 10 to 15.

“We had a bit of delay, but PMS will start coming out by 10 to 15 of July. But then we want to keep it in the tank to make sure that it settles. So by the third week of July, we’ll be able to come out to take it into the market,” Dangote had said.

Dangote, last month, disclosed that it would begin the sale of PMS in June, saying his refinery would end the importation of petrol into Nigeria.

 “Right now, Nigeria has no cause to import anything apart from gasoline and by sometime in June, within the next four or five weeks, Nigeria shouldn’t import anything like gasoline; not one drop of a litre,” he declared

“We have enough gasoline to give to at least the entire West Africa, and diesel to give to West Africa and Central Africa. We have enough aviation fuel to give to the entire continent and also export some to Brazil and Mexico.

“We have started producing jet fuel, we are producing diesel, and by next month, we’ll be producing gasoline. What that will do, it will be able to take most African crude,” Dangote told the panel.

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