The Dangote Petroleum Refinery equipped roughly 50 million litres of petrol day-to-day to Nigeria’s home marketplace within the first part of 2026, as the power expanded manufacturing and exports to world markets.
This used to be disclosed in Dangote Staff’s H1 2026 Macroeconomic Record, titled Between Providence and Inflation, ready via its Financial Analysis and Intelligence Unit.
In step with the document, day-to-day petrol provide reached a document 56 million litres in April, in opposition to a deliberate evacuation of roughly 1.1 million tonnes per thirty days.
Refinery utilisation rises to 101%
The document published that the refinery’s capability utilisation larger from roughly 45% in early 2025 to between 98% and 101% from April to June 2026.
Its processing capability used to be additionally rerated from 650,000 to 700,000 barrels according to day in June, reflecting the growth of its refining operations.
- “By way of the primary part of 2026 the plant used to be supplying at the order of fifty million litres of petrol an afternoon to the home marketplace (a document 56 million litres an afternoon in April, in opposition to a deliberate evacuation of about 1.1 million tonnes a month), along some 25 million litres an afternoon of diesel and as much as 29 million litres an afternoon of jet gasoline and exporting a rising surplus of delicate product throughout West Africa and past,” the document said.
The document famous that the rise in manufacturing enabled the power to fulfill a considerable portion of Nigeria’s home petroleum call for whilst increasing exports of diesel, aviation gasoline and different delicate merchandise.
It additional disclosed that Nigeria’s delicate petroleum product exports larger via 51% year-on-year within the first quarter of 2026.
Nigeria’s petrol imports fall 26%
The growth of home refining capability has considerably diminished Nigeria’s dependence on imported petrol, despite the fact that the rustic continues to obtain provides from world markets.
In step with the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Nigeria’s average daily petrol imports declined by 26% to 14.6 million litres in August 2026, from 19.7 million litres in July.
- Right through the similar month, Dangote Refinery recorded reasonable capability utilisation of 105.21%, generating 41.94 million litres of petrol, 18.01 million litres of diesel and 24.48 million litres of aviation gasoline day-to-day.
- Home petrol receipts averaged 35.87 million litres day-to-day, whilst exports stood at 9.73 million litres, with last inventory achieving 360.4 million litres.
- For diesel, day-to-day home receipts stood at 12.37 million litres in opposition to exports of 8.75 million litres, whilst aviation gasoline exports averaged 21.30 million litres day-to-day, when compared with home receipts of three.07 million litres.
The rise in home refining has additionally coincided with a pointy relief in Nigeria’s petrol import expenditure.
Information from the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics (NBS) confirmed that the country’s petrol import bill fell by 96.15% to N87.40 billion in Q1 2026, from N2.27 trillion within the corresponding duration of 2025.
Dangote expands Eu jet gasoline exports
Past supplying Nigeria’s home marketplace, Dangote Refinery has expanded exports to Europe, reversing a part of the historic industry development below which Nigeria imported delicate petroleum merchandise from world markets.
In the meantime, Dangote is planning another large-scale refinery in Kenya, with the proposed $17 billion facility anticipated to be positioned in Lamu.