Dangote Refinery Lauds NNPC For 60 Percent Crude Supply
The Group Chief Strategy Officer, Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals Company, Aliyu Suleiman has expressed gratitude to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL for supplying 60 per cent of Nigerian crude to the refinery.
Aliyu made the claim during an interactive session organised by the Senate Ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged sabotage in the Nigerian petroleum industry.
This supersedes the position of the Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Rabiu A. Umar, who had claimed that the NNPC has been supplying insufficient crude oil for its production demand.
Umar had said that NNPC supplies only 33 per cent of crude to the refinery, disclosing that it had to look elsewhere to source the remaining 67 per cent to meet its production capacity.
He added that the refinery, which has the capacity of refining 650,000 per day, could not depend on short supply from Nigeria’s oil company.
However, during his presentation, Aliyu disclosed that out of the five million barrels of crude oil they got in recent time, “NNPC gave them 60 per cent, 20 per cent was imported, and 20 per cent was purchased”.
He appreciated the strong partnership with NNPCL and also described the refinery as a baby that should be supported by all relevant stakeholders “in order to grow and not die”.
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