DANGOTE TARGETS SOUTHERN AFRICA AS REGIONAL FUEL HUB WITH NAMIBIA STORAGE EXPANSION

Dangote Refinery expands into Southern Africa with new fuel storage project in Namibia, aiming to become a key energy supplier across the region.

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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is making a strategic push into Southern Africa by constructing large-scale fuel storage tanks in Namibia’s coastal city of Walvis Bay. The project, which is expected to have a minimum capacity of 1.6 million barrels of gasoline and diesel, signals a major expansion of the refinery’s distribution network beyond Nigeria.

Industry insiders say the move is designed to position Dangote as a key supplier of refined petroleum products across Southern Africa, specifically Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and potentially the southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The facility will be housed within the Walvis Bay port, confirmed by an official at the Namibia Ports Authority. While financial details of the Namibian project have not yet been disclosed, construction is reportedly set to begin soon.

Dangote’s 650,000 barrels-per-day refinery, located in Lagos, Nigeria, began operations last year after a $20 billion investment and has since been scaling up output and exploring new export markets. A gasoline cargo from the refinery was recently shipped to Asia, marking its first foray outside West Africa.

This latest move into Namibia complements ongoing efforts by the refinery to ramp up its crude storage infrastructure. Earlier this year, it began building eight additional tanks aimed at boosting storage capacity by 6.29 million barrels or roughly 1 billion liters, bringing total crude storage capacity to 3.4 billion litres.

With Nigeria already cutting down on fuel imports due to Dangote’s output, the refinery appears poised to become a dominant player in Africa’s refined petroleum market, reshaping the continent’s energy landscape and potentially shifting the balance of trade routes for years to come.

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