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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is quickly silencing its critics, with operations running more consistently and efficiently than ever before.
According to global energy and commodity agency Argus, the refinery’s production increased to about 610 000 barrels per day (bpd) in August 2025, approaching its official nameplate capacity of 650,000 bpd.
In a podcast titled “Can the Dangote Refinery Declare Victory Over Doubters?” Benedict George, Editor of the Argus European Products Report, stated that the plant has outperformed industry expectations by continually running at high levels into 2025.
“The Dangote refinery has been running this year more reliably and strongly than ever before. We have seen crude receipts at the refinery and therefore implied run rates growing month on month.
In recent months, we have been looking at above 400,000 barrels per day. As of June, we were around 440 000, 450 000 barrels per day. So we are well above half of its nameplate capacity. And output is rising starkly as a result, as you can imagine.
This month alone, we are looking at around 610 000 barrels per day in implied running rates,” he stated.
The Argus podcast, as reported by the Punch, described how Dangote has become the primary gasoline price setter in Nigeria by offering aggressive pricing that frequently undercuts competitors, upending the downstream oil industry.
He claims that regional gasoline flows have started to change as a result of Dangote’s expanding output. — Business Inside Africa
