The Dangote Oil Refinery has a Nelson complexity index of 10.5 which means that it will be more complex than most refineries in the United States (average 9.5) or Europe (average 6.5). ( The largest refinery in the world, the Jamnagar Refinery in India, has a complexity of 21.1.)
Where is the Lekki oil refinery located?
The refinery is situated on a 6,180 acres (2,500 hectares) site at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki, Lagos State. It is supplied with crude oil by the largest sub-sea pipeline infrastructure of the world (1,100 km long). When fully operational it will provide 135,000 permanent jobs in the region.
How does Dangote Refinery work?
In short: Like other refineries, the Dangote refinery separates the molecules of crude oil in the distillation column by their length, breaks the longer molecules into shorter ones ("cracking") and combines short molecules into medium-sized ones ("alkylation").