The
Management of Dangote Oil Refinery Company (DORC) says about 150
indigenous engineers have been trained in refinery operations in
preparation for the take-off of its Lagos Refinery and Petrochemical
Plant.
Mr Mohan Kumar,
the company’s Director of Human Capital Management and Project Support,
made this known at a news conference in Lagos on Monday while
presenting 22 engineers who returned from Mumbai, India.
Kumar
said the young engineers were trained at Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Ltd. in India on how to manage the operations of the refinery.
He added that the engineers had gathered fundamental practical knowledge about refinery.
According to him, the engineers are recruited and trained to witness the building of the refinery from scratch.
He said the engineers spent two months in classroom training and three months on the job training.
Kumar
explained that the 22 engineers were trained by experts who had over 45
years experience in refinery operations, stressing that the training
became imperative due to the commitment of Dangote Group to promote
local content by developing indigenous capacity.
He added that “the engineers are expected to also transfer the skills acquired to other Nigerians when the refinery takes off.
“The 22
engineers arrived from Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Mumbai in India,
where the last set of 150 employees trained in various areas of
petroleum and petrochemical refining.’’
Kumar noted that another set of 600 engineers would be sent for training before the end of April.
According
to him, the refinery will produce 780 Kilo Tonnes Per Annum (KTPA) of
Polypropylene, 500 KTPA of Polyethylene, while the fertiliser project
will produce 3.0 million tonnes of urea per annum.
He
explained that “the refinery will also have the largest sub-sea pipeline
infrastructure in the world with capacity to handle three billion cubic
metres of oil annually.”
Dangote
Refinery is expected to save Nigeria 12 billion dollars annual import
substitution and create 4,000 direct jobs, as well as reduce prices of
petroleum products after completion.
The project
is located in Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State on a vast land mass
of 2,200 hectares, an area eight times bigger than the entire Victoria
Island in Lagos.
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