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Nothing as big as Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals had ever been
done! So, no engineering, procurement and construction company in the world had
any expertise or experience to make it come to life.
Those who wanted the contract were quoting ridiculous figure of $25 billion.
And from scratch—reclaiming the land, sand filling, compacting and purchasing and
installing the smallest item to the biggest, they had to do it all by themselves.
Everyone they approached, experts and gurus in the oil and gas industry across the
world, told them the project would never take off the ground, not to talk of flying.
And determined to make a success of it, the Dangote Group assembled a team from
scratch to give the project a shot.
They put together a team 340 engineers in India, and became the EPC (Engineering,
Procurement and Construction company), buying and assembling and constructing
with bolt and nuts, sand, cement, concrete and more.
“And it has never happened in the world,” Alhaji Dangote said with pride. “Any
equipment you see here was specifically built for us. Nobody in the world has ever
built this kind of plant.”
One of the driving forces to that encouraged the pursuit of the of the refinery was the fact that only two of the 54 countries in Africa do not import fuel (Algeria and Libya).
And from 2013 when the consortium of banks agreed to finance the project to earlier
in the year when production commenced, the power of a dream of a visionary mogul
came to life.
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