Nigeria to export $625m fertilizer with Dangote plant now commissioned

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BY ABUBAKAR H. MUHAMMAD, MARCH 22, 2022 | 04:50 PM


President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the Dangote Fertilizer Plant in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos State.

He made the official ceremony on Tuesday alongside Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Industries Limited and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State among other top government and private sector players.

The granulated urea and ammonia fertilizer complex, a $2.5 billion project with a nameplate capacity of three metric tonnes per annum, is the largest in the African continent.

The plant occupies 500 hectares of land at the Lekki Free Trade Zone.

It is the biggest of its kind in the world and is combined with a 650,000 barrels per day oil refinery standing within its vicinity.

While the refinery section is expected to be launched later this year, the two edifice is said to cost the Africa’s richest man $17.5 billion.

The project has, according to a release by the presidency, provided about 5,000 direct and indirect jobs to people during its construction and additional 5,000 jobs within the community as well as 500 permanent employments.

It says if the factory is fully in operation, it will help Nigeria to retain $125 million in import substitution and provide $625 million from exports of products from the plant.

Also, Nigeria is estimated to need about five to seven million metric tons per annum of fertilizer and with the current level of its consumption in the country, which is 1.5 million metric tons, the Dangote fertilizer complex will be sufficient to produce that feat as it can be able to produce three million metric tons per annum of the urea fertilizer in its first phase.

The complex also consists of the following:

  1. 2 x 2,200 MTPD Ammonia Plants based on Halder Topsoe technology.
  2. 2 x 4,000 MTPD Melt Urea Plants based on Snamprogetti technology.
  3. 2 x 4,000 MTPD Urea Granulation Plants based on Uhde technology.
  4. A Captive Power plant comprising of 3 Steam turbine Generators of 40 MW capacity each totaling 120 MW.
  5. 3 Auxiliary boilers for 40 ATA steam generation of 200 TE capacity each.


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