Inside Dangote Refinery: The World's Largest Single-Train Plant Rises in Lagos
Built on 2,635 hectares at Lekki, the 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote Refinery is the largest refinery ever built by a single individual, and it is reshaping how Nigeria and West Africa fuel themselves.
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals complex in Lekki, Lagos, is the world's largest single-train refinery, designed to process 650,000 barrels of crude per day. Financed and driven by Aliko Dangote, it stands as the biggest refining project ever delivered by one individual anywhere in the world.
The plant carries its own seaport, power generation, and a fertiliser complex, and it is built to supply petrol, diesel, jet fuel, and polypropylene not only to Nigeria but across West Africa and beyond. For a continent that has long exported crude and imported refined fuel, the refinery is a turning point in the value chain.
Alongside the throughput numbers sits a wider story: thousands of engineering and logistics jobs, a growing local supplier base, and proof that industrial projects of global scale can be conceived, financed, and completed on African soil.