Out of Nigeria’s 50m litres daily consumption, Dangote refinery supplies 20m – NMDPRA

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, has disclosed that the Dangote refinery supplies an average of up to 20 million litres of petrol daily across the country.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, made this known on Thursday at the Association of Energy Correspondents of Nigeria, NAEC, annual conference in Lagos.

Ahmed said, “Without a shadow of doubt, the operation of the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote refinery has changed the supply dynamics with an average daily contribution of up to 20 million litres, undoubtedly with potential for future ramp up, which we all hope we will see as we go along.”

Ahmed, who was represented by the NMDPRA spokesperson, George Ene-Ita, stressed the country’s national daily consumption is “around 50 million litres of PMS daily”.

“We need to encourage the biggest refinery to do all it can to begin to shape up in order for us to have local consumption and supply ramped up.

“To further strengthen our energy security, we must operationalize petroleum product stock in line with the provisions of the PIA 2021 to provide a buffer against major supply disruptions,” he added.