Honeywell to help build Dangote’s new Kenyan mega-refinery

Machinery is lined up on the day of a ground breaking ceremony for the construction of a $16bn oil refinery, which is backed by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, who intends to replicate the success of his group’s 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Nigeria to meet growing demand for petroleum products across East Africa, in Lamu, Kenya. Image credit: Reuters/Monicah Mwangi

Dangote and Kenya’s President William Ruto broke ground on the $16bn project in Kenya’s Lamu County, amid criticism from conservationists and affected landowners challenging its construction in court.

Honeywell and Dangote worked together at his Nigerian refinery, where the company is helping upgrade the plant to double its capacity to 1.4 million bpd.

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“Through our long-standing relationship with Dangote, we have developed proven large-train engineering designs that can be applied to the Kenya refinery to significantly reduce time-to-market,” Honeywell Technologies UOP president Rajesh Gattupalli said in a statement.

The refinery will supply diesel, petrol and jet fuel to Kenya, East Africa’s largest economy, with products also exported to countries across the region.