Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Nigeria starts production
13 January 2024
Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Nigeria (earlier post) has begun production of diesel and aviation fuel. The refinery can load 2,900 trucks a day at its truck-loading gantries.
Gas flare stack at the refinery.
The products from the refinery will conform to Euro V specifications. The refinery design complies with the World Bank, US EPA, European emission norms, and DPR emission/effluent norms.
The Refinery will meet 100% of the Nigerian requirement of all refined products and also have a surplus of each of these products for export. Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a multi-billion dollar project that will create a market for $21 Billion per annum of Nigerian Crude. It is designed to process Nigerian crude with the ability to also process other crudes.
10000 gallons/truck
2900 trucks/day
365 days/year
10585000000 gallons /y
10.19 kg CO2/gallon diesel
1.07861E+11 kg CO2/y
107861150 MT CO2/y
107.86115 MMT CO2/y
About 1/300th of our excess CO2-eq emissions/y.
So, why are we reading about this on Green Car Congress?
Posted by: matt | 13 January 2024 at 10:15 AM
Incidentally, their diesel comes to about $200/MT CO2 emitted. About the same cost as what it would take to capture and sequester the C from it. So double the price of fuel to make it carbon neutral.
Posted by: matt | 13 January 2024 at 01:57 PM
Sequestering carbon dioxide from power plants is far more cost effective in slowing global warming
Posted by: SJC | 15 January 2024 at 12:43 PM