Dangote Refinery announces fresh date to commence fuel supply in Nigeria

The Dangote Refinery has said that the revised date for supplying Premium Motor Spirit (fuel) to the Nigerian market will be July 10–15, 2025.

Dangote Group President Aliko recently revealed this while Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, was giving a tour of the refinery, which has a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day.

The refinery had previously declared it would start supplying fuel in June, but the revised date contradicts that announcement.

Dangote, however, attributed the non-start of the fuel supply in June, as previously announced, to a small issue.

“We had a bit of delay, but PMS will start coming out by July 10 to 15. 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.

Remember that Dangote declared his refinery would stop importing petrol into Nigeria during his speech at the last Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali, Rwanda.

“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 liter,” he declared

The refinery was put into service in May of last year, and months later, in April, it started to deliver aviation fuel and diesel.

The refinery had lamented the lack of crude oil supplied by foreign oil corporations in Nigeria.

“The NNPC is doing its best, but some of the IOCs are struggling to give us crude. Everybody is used to exporting, and nobody wants to stop,” Dangote told CNN recently.

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