Dangote Refinery is set to receive its first supply of 950,000 barrels of Agbami crude.
The OTIS tanker carrying the cargo is en route Lekki, Nigeria and billed to arrive at 8pm.
This is the first set of crude supply to Dangote refinery and marks the first major supply of crude to Dangote’s offshore crude receiving terminal.
According to the S&P Global MINT tanker tracking platform, the Suezmax tanker, chartered by NNPCL, embarked on the journey on December 6.
This move signals the beginning of operations for the Dangote refinery, a significant addition to Nigeria’s oil refining capabilities.
According to S&P, The OTIS tanker loaded a 950,000-barrel cargo of Nigeria’s Agbami crude on December 6 and is currently flagged as en route to Lekki, which is the nearest land port to Dangote’s offshore crude receiving terminal and is expected to arrive later on December 7 at around 1900 GMT.
Operated by Chevron, Agbami is one of Nigeria’s largest deepwater developments pumping about 100,000 b/d in the central Niger Delta.
Agbami produces light sweet crude with a gravity of 47.9 API and a sulfur content of 0.04%, according to Platts’ Periodic Table of Oil. The crude is known in the market for yielding a large proportion of naphtha and kerosene.
NNPCL has chartered several other tankers to transport further crude shipments from Nigerian offshore fields to the refinery later this month.
