The data reviewed by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that less than 10.3 million litres were lifted from the Dangote Refinery in three days.
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“I am aware that due to the forecast that the Dangote Refinery would provide 25 million litres daily, the NMDPRA failed to clear NNPC Trading Limited to import petrol for October and onwards,” the official said, asking not to be named because he had no permission to speak on the matter. “With the supply shortage from the refinery, Nigeria is in trouble because, as we speak, there is not enough product to go round the country.
On Tuesday, the Dangote Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Anthony Chiejina, told Vanguard newspaper that the refinery supplied 111 million litres of the product within three days. He blamed the current slow loading speed on NNPCL, which he said needed to send more trucks to lift the product. For instance, the state-owned oil company only sent 67 trucks on 15 September instead of the 300 trucks it claimed to have dispatched to the facility to load the product, Mr Chiejina said.
NNPC officials said they recently approached the refinery requesting vessel loading but were told that the operation facilities needed to be prepared. “With that information from Dangote, the vessel MT Binta Saleh has been withdrawn,” one official said. “No vessel loading yet, as advised by Dangote.”
“For instance, now Brent is $70. Let’s say tomorrow, Brent goes to $80. You should note that the price will also rise because those are the market forces. But today, for this initial 16.8 million litre that was given to us, it was at the rate of N898,” Mr Soneye said.
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