The fertiliser plant being constructed by Dangote Group will be ready to start production in 2021, Bloomberg is reporting.
Maurizio Coratella, chief operating officer of Saipem SpA, the company in charge of the construction, said a test run that began in March was affected by disruptions that came with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fertiliser plant has a name-plate annual capacity of three million tons of urea and ammonia, the largest in the world.
It is also being constructed in the Lekki Free Trade Zone area which houses other plants and factories including the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery and Lekki Port.
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“We are picking up now that things are looking more stable and are currently very well advanced,” Coratella was quoted to have said.
“We are in the commissioning stage of the first train; for the second, we will have that commissioning in six to seven months time.”
The COO also said Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man who owns the facility, is setting up dedicated flights for vendors and suppliers to ensure that the project meets its completion deadline.
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Saipem is a part of the SCD joint venture consortium that secured the $4 billion engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts for the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Train 7 project.
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