尼日利亚非洲最大新炼油厂将推迟两年投产

中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社8月16日伦敦报道，知情人士日前透露，由非洲首富在尼日利亚建造的一个大型炼油厂不太可能在2022年之前投产，这个新炼油厂将比目标日期晚两年投产。

这个位于尼日利亚首都拉各斯附近具有日加工65万桶原油能力的新炼油厂建成后将成为非洲最大的炼油厂，这个新建炼油厂将推动尼日利亚经济增长，使该国从成品油进口国转变为出口国，从而改变全球贸易格局。

靠水泥发家的亿万富翁阿里科·丹格特上个月曾对路透社记者表示，他希望能在2019年建成这个巨型炼油厂并在2020年初投产。

然而，曾多次前往新炼油厂建造现场的消息人士表示，他们预计这个新炼油厂在2022年初之前将不会有汽油或柴油产量，即使到那时，新炼油厂和配套的石化厂的许多装置也不会完工。

李峻 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Billionaire's huge Nigerian oil refinery likely delayed until 2022

A huge oil refinery being built in Nigeria by Africa's richest man is unlikely to start production until 2022, two years later than the target date, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The 650,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery near Lagos, set to be Africa's biggest, is expected to boost Nigeria's growth and turn the country from an importer of refined products into an exporter, transforming global trade patterns.

Billionaire Aliko Dangote, who built his fortune on cement, told Reuters last month he hoped to finish building the refinery in 2019 and to start production in early 2020.

However, the sources, who have been on the site many times, said they do not expect gasoline or diesel output before early 2022 and even then, many units at the refinery and accompanying petrochemical plant would not be complete.