Nigeria’s Dangote refinery — set to be Africa’s biggest at 650,000 b/d plant — was expected to be ready to process crude by early 2021, officials said Monday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The plant, being built by Nigerian conglomerate Dangote Group and which will use Nigerian crude, was previously set to come on stream in 2020. But officials said the construction will be complete by end-2020 and the plant will be operational by early-2021. “The refinery will be ready early in 2021 and we hope to reach full capacity before the end of that year,” Devakumar Edwin, an executive director at Dangote told reporters. Edwin said the refinery will “dedicate 53%” of the projected 650,000 b/d refining capacity to the production of gasoline. Nigeria is dependent on fuel imports for all its gasoline needs. “We target to export surplus products from […]