'Petrol Marketers Complained To Tinubu That Our Diesel Price Is Too Cheap' – Dangote Refinery

Date: 12-09-2024 4:29 pm (1 month ago) | Author: onuigbo felicia
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Marketers of petroleum products in Nigeria have reportedly written to President Bola Tinubu to complain that the drop in price of Dangote Refinery’s diesel to N900 per litre, is negatively affecting their businesses.

Devakumar Edwin, Vice President, Dangote Industries Limited, disclosed this on a Twitter Spaces session organized by Nairametrics.

“Petroleum product marketers in Nigeria have written to President Bola Tinubu to complain that the refinery local prices which have dropped from N1,200 to N1,000 and now N900 per litre are impacting their businesses negatively,” he said.

Edwin highlighted some of the challenges facing the Dangote Refinery and its impact on Nigeria’s fuel supply and prices.

According to him, the refinery, located in the Lekki Free Zone near Lagos, struggles to sell about 29 tankers of diesel per day due to low patronage from local petroleum product importers.

“As a result of this poor local patronage, the refinery exports most of its diesel and aviation fuel,” he said.

Edwin had earlier said Dangote Refinery products would be exported if the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other petroleum dealers in the country refuse to patronise it.

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“We have been exporting aviation fuel, we have been producing kerosene, we have been producing diesel, but yesterday, we started the production of PMS. So, that was the last stage. The only thing now left out is petrochemicals.”

“So, the good news for the country is we have started producing PMS from our refinery,” he had said on a radio programme.

Asked if the petrol would be sold locally, Edwin replied, “Well, I explained how there has been a kind of a blockade from lifting our products within the country. The traders have been trying to block (it), and so now we have been exporting our petroleum products. PMS, we are ready to pump in as much as possible to the country.

“But if the traders or NNPC are not buying the product, obviously, we will end up exporting the PMS as we are doing with the aviation jet and diesel,”
he declared.

Posted: at 12-09-2024 04:29 PM (1 month ago) | Addicted Hero
- fineboy77 at 12-09-2024 05:52 PM (1 month ago)
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Just imagine. Nigerians doing everything to make life difficult for fellow Nigerians. Can they name those involved so that the masses can visit them?

Posted: at 12-09-2024 05:52 PM (1 month ago) | Addicted Hero
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- gogoman at 12-09-2024 07:09 PM (1 month ago)
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No, let still blame the president alone  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes 
Posted: at 12-09-2024 07:09 PM (1 month ago) | Grande Master
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- kp45 at 12-09-2024 08:16 PM (1 month ago)
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All these leaders doing evil, if Tinubu hear the marketers cry then they are all playing games. What nonsense. Greedy fools, must you all kill the masses to make money?
Posted: at 12-09-2024 08:16 PM (1 month ago) | Addicted Hero
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