{"id":177680,"date":"2025-09-04T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:40:20","slug":"dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Refinery Petrol Unit Offline for Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The petrol-producing unit at Nigeria\u2019s 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote refinery has been taken offline due to catalyst leaks and other technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>The repairs are expected to last at least two weeks, Reuters reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery\u2019s 204,000 bpd Residue Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit, RFCCU, has been shut since August 29, according to industry monitor IIR Energy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the development but requested anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote, however, was yet to comment on the development.<\/p>\n<p>The $20 billion facility, which began operations last year, has rapidly increased output, reshaping global oil and fuel trade flows.<\/p>\n<p>Its first exports of petrol to the United States are expected to arrive in New York later this month, ship-tracking data from Kpler indicated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The petrol-producing unit at Nigeria\u2019s 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote refinery has been taken offline due to catalyst leaks and other technical issues. The repairs are expected to last at least two weeks, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The refinery\u2019s 204,000 bpd Residue Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit, RFCCU, has been shut since August 29, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[10513,254],"class_list":["post-177680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-dangote-refinery","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dangote Refinery Petrol Unit Offline for Repairs - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The petrol-producing unit at Nigeria\u2019s 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote refinery has been taken offline due to catalyst le ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dangote Refinery Petrol Unit Offline for Repairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The petrol-producing unit at Nigeria\u2019s 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote refinery has been taken offline due to catalyst le ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T13:37:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T14:40:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756984384.837483.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Dangote Refinery Petrol Unit Offline for Repairs\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-04T13:37:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-04T14:40:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs\"},\"wordCount\":143,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756984384.837483.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Dangote refinery\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/dangote-refinery-petrol-unit-offline-for-repairs\",\"name\":\"Dangote Refinery Petrol Unit Offline for Repairs - 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