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Oando Acquires Oil Block In Angola

Oando Plc  Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade  Oando Plc  says it has completed and won the bid for the operatorship of oil block KON 13 in Angola. The firm which recently acquired Eni of Italy’s oil assets in Nigeria, said that the award of the oil block located in Angola’s onshore Kwanza Basin followed a competitive bidding process by the country’s oil and gas sector regulator. It further said hat the asset in which it owns 45 per cent participating interest, has estimated prospective resources of 770 to 1,100 million barrels of oil. Oando is handling its operations relating to the asset through its upstream subsidiary, Oando Energy Resources (OER). “Oando Plc,  Africa’s leading indigenous energy solutions provider listed on both the Nigerian Exchange Limited and Johannesburg Stock Exchange is pleased to announce that its upstream subsidiary, Oando Energy Resources (OER), has been awarded operatorship of Block KON 13 in Angola’s Onshore Kwanza Basin, following a...

Dangote Refinery Will Generate $10b From Exports

L-R: Group Managing Director, Dangote Cement Plc, Arvind Pathak; Zambia Minister of Infrastructure, Hon. Engr. Charles Milupi and President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, during the visit to Aliko Dangote in his Office, after an official tour of Concrete Paved Road in Lagos constructed by Dangote Industries Limited on Friday, May 12, 2023

ByFavour and Akinola Ajibade 

Dangote Refinery is a privately driven entity, established purely as business concern, not a substitute for fuel subsidy, analysts have said. 

The Refinery, which boast of 650,000 capacity will be innugurated next week in order to deepen distribution of petroleum products, which its scarcity has lor years hampered the growth of Nigerian economy.

The project will be commission next week, precisely May 22, 2023.

The project will enable Nigeria to save $10 billion in foreign exchange ( FX) and  generate another $10 billion in exports when it begins operation. 

According to the analysts who were drawn from across oil and gas and other sectors of the economy, Dangote Refinery  project will be profit -driven, as the company will be buying crude oil at the  Market rate, process it the way a typical plant import fuel and resell it a non-subsidised rate.

" Nigerians should not expect that Dangote would sell fuel to them  at a subsidies’ rate.  This will certainly not happen.However, if the government wants to continue to sell fuel to Nigerians at subsidized rate, it has to buy from Dangote at market price and sell to Nigerians at subsidized rates" they added jointly". 

On gains to Nigeria,  analysts further said that the country will be saved the agony of waiting  fuel , which would spend almost 60 days turnaround time. 

" Marketer will just walk around to Lekki processing zone and get fuel from there, this is the advantage. So products supply would be guaranteed and it will be in the neighbourhood.

Again, the transportation cost for fuel would be reduced. Also, it will help Nigeria to conserve foreign exchange. The issue of mother and vessel and perhaps port charges which have been sources of concern for marketers would have been greatly minimized.

 Nigeria would save up to US$10bn in foreign exchange (FX) and generate another US$10bn in exports when the facility begins operation.

Recall that Dangote Refinery Plant costs $19billion, which is loans taken from banks and other financial institutions and so the promoter of the refinery must pay back the loans. 



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