Construction of Africa's Largest Refinery

Height of construct...

During the height of construction, it was among Africa's largest building sites.

Huge structures were brought in by sea

and by land.

Special roads were constructed to get massive pieces of equipment to the site.

At the peak construction period, we had 70,000 people working in the

site. We bought 320 cranes. We invested

in about 1,200 civil construction equipment,

1,050 trucks, and then we had to invest in

120 transit mixes, 80 concrete pumps,

ready-mix concrete pla- batching plants, and the world's

largest stone quarry to supply aggregate to this.

We had to build in a lot of infrastructure.

Eight years later, and today, a vast network of towering structures and

miles and miles of steel pipes transports oil through

various stages of production.

This is the world's largest single train petroleum

refinery, along with an integrated petrochemical

complex.

Now, with this refinery, the whole scenario will change.

Instead of being an importer of petroleum products,

50% of the production will be exported because 50% will

meet the local demand.

This vast industrial complex was the vision of one man,

Aliko Dangote.