The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has significantly scaled up its operations, increasing premium motor spirit (petrol) supplies to the Nigerian domestic market while successfully exporting an average of 15.1 million litres per day (mpd) throughout April 2026.
This is according to the Nigerian Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s fact sheet for April 2026, analyzed by BusinessDay.
The fact sheet showed that while the total petrol supplied in the period stood at 44.4 mpd, domestic supplies which was solely handled by Dangote refinery was 40.7 mpd, indicating a sharp increase from 34.2 mpd domestic supply in the month of March. The report showed that the volume of petrol imported in April dropped to 3.7mpb from 5.9 mpd recorded in March.
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The state owned refineries, including the Port Harcourt refinery, Warri refinery and Kaduna refinery remained shut down in the period.
“Dangote Refinery achieved 100% capacity utilization for most of the days in April,” the report stated.
The total Crude oil supplied to domestic refineries stood at 18.37mpd. Of this total, 17. 96 mpd were locally supplied, representing the highest volume supplied in the year, while 0.41 mpd were imported. The report indicated an increase from 11.49mbpd supplied to domestic refineries, and a decline from 9.43 mbpd imported in March.
On automotive gas, the report showed that the total daily was 10.2ml/d, of which 8.5ml/d was sourced from domestic refineries and 1.7 ml/d represented imports in the period.
The report also indicated that a total of 0.549 Bscf/day was utilized for power generation, 0.671 Bscf/day was used for Commercial purpose, and 0.468 Bscf/day was utilized by gas based industries.
The total daily volume of gas supplied to NLNG in the period was 3.129 Bscf/day, while the average daily gas supplied to domestic market was 2.012 Bscf/day.
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