Dangote Petrochemical Refinery has reportedly skipped its planned maintenance for June 2025 at its 204,000 barrels per day premium motor spirit producing unit, according to a report by Reuters on Tuesday.
The report emphasised that the maintenance was earlier scheduled for June 2025 (next month).
According to the news platform, the 650,000 barrels per day refinery rendered the maintenance unnecessary after the plant carried out emergency essential repairs and upgrades between April 7 and May 11, 2025.
Reuters, quoting industry monitor Industrial Info Resources Energy, said the facility, during the unplanned outage, increased exports of residual products such as straight-run fuel oil.
This comes as a shipping trade analytics firm, Kpler, said Dangote Refinery’s exports of finished products such as jet fuel and gasoil dropped. Last month, Nigeria’s petrol imports rose by 24 percent in the month of April to 157,000 bpd, representing 210.54 million litres.
The report had it that the president of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had initially planned to shut its gasoline-making residue fluid catalytic cracking unit for 30 days of maintenance in June.
Media Talk Africa recalls that the refinery kicked off the rollout of gasoil, naphtha, and jet fuel in January 2024 and started producing gasoline later in September.
Meanwhile, Dangote Refinery has not officially commented on the matter as of filing the report.
