The evolving discourse about a clause in the Petroleum Industry Bill that favours a certain category of local refiners, with a certain high nameplate, appears to have a target and Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company, being the poster boy of Nigeria’s local private refineries, fits that category. The question is: as the institution with the largest refinery in Africa, would it want to leave such a huge Investment to pursue imported product licence in the turbulent sea of fuel importation? Chris Paul reports
In the post NNPC-Dangote Refinery deal downstream, the growing conversation sneaking into public space, about a certain clause in the recently passed PIB, seems to be another diversion from the substance in the deal that should get Nigerians excited and anxious for the earnest completion of the refinery.