Dangote Refinery, Road Transport Union To Partner In Fuel Distribution

Soon-to-be Africa’s largest refinery, Dangote Refinery will be collaborating with the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners to distribute petroleum products from the refinery across the country.

This information was contained in a statement from Dangote Industries Limited on Sunday.

It said that members of the association paid a visit to the refinery in Ibeju-Lekki during which they toured the facility and expressed their willingness to collaborate on the distribution of refined products.

The NARTO President, Alhaji Lawal Othman, expressed confidence in the refinery’s size and content, saying that the plan to construct a road from the refinery through Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State was a welcome development that would decongest the roads and smoothen operations.

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Othman commented on the state of the downstream sector and expressed the need for deregulation of the oil and gas sector.

The president said fears of Dangote Refinery competing with them had been allayed as the company said 70 per cent of the refined products would be transported through the sea and 30 per cent by trucking.

He said the company had assured it would not be a player in the retail of petroleum products and would be partnering with truck owners instead.

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