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Dangote Group’s fertiliser plant, now under construction in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos, will be ready to start production late this year, according to Saipem SpA, the builders.
Owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, the facility located in the Lekki district of Nigeria’s commercial hub, has a name-plate capacity of 3 million tons a year of urea and ammonia, making it the world’s biggest. It is in the vicinity of a 650,000 barrels a day Dangote oil refinery also under construction. Test runs started at the
plant in March, though they were hampered by the disruptions that came with the
coronavirus pandemic, said Maurizio Coratella, chief operating officer of Saipem.