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By Adewale Sanyaolu
The Dangote Refinery has recorded a setback in its 50 million litres daily supply of petrol into the domestic market.
The company hitherto pledged to supply Nigeria’s domestic petrol requirement with 1.5 billion litres monthly, about 50 million litres per day, beginning December 2025.
The company said the volume would be increased to 1.7 billion litres per month, translating to 57 million litres daily, from February 2026.
The pledge was contained in a letter addressed to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and signed by the refinery’s Chief Executive Officer, David Bird, dated November 30, 2025.
To boost market confidence and ensure transparency, the refinery urged the regulator to deploy officials onsite from December 1 to verify and publicly publish its daily production and stock levels.
But latest domestic petrol supply statistics released by the NMDPRA revealed that the refinery was only able to supply 32.01 million litres of petrol as against its planned 50 million litres.
According to the NMDPRA factsheet for December 2025, the refinery showed strength in boosting local supply of petrol from 19.47 million litres in November to 32.01 in December.
Additionally, the Dangote Refinery showed strong capacity utilisation for the month of December reaching a maximum of 71 per cent utilisation and average utilisation of 62.94 per cent.
The 50 million litres supply shortfall may not be unconnected to the report of technical hitches at the refinery, a claim the management flatly denied.
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The refinery in a statement emphasised that production remains ongoing, stable and uninterrupted.
“Dangote Petroleum Refinery continues to operate at scale and retains the capacity to supply between 40 million and 50 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) daily through January and February, subject solely to market demand,”.
It added that on January 4, the refinery produced 50 million litres of PMS and evacuated 48 million litres via its gantry. “Current stock levels cover over 20 days of national consumption, effectively dispelling any concerns about supply.”
The refinery clarified that routine maintenance on specific units, including the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC), does not interrupt overall production, owing to the sophisticated and integrated design of its processing units. Other critical units, such as the Naphtha Hydrotreater, CCR Reformer, and Hydrocracker, remain fully operational, producing PMS, Diesel (Automotive Gas Oil), and Jet A-1.
“Dangote Petroleum Refinery confirms that it has consistently maintained adequate PMS availability for the domestic market. From 16 December 2025 to date, the refinery has loaded between 31 million and 48 million litres of PMS daily from its gantry, in line with prevailing market demand.
These volumes are fully verifiable against depot loading records maintained by the NMDPRA in the normal course of its regulatory responsibilities,” the statement said.
The refinery also reaffirmed its ex-gantry price of N699 per litre for PMS, available to all marketers and bulk consumers. It encouraged filling stations, large-scale users, and institutional buyers to patronise locally refined products, which are more affordable, reliable, and of high quality, rather than relying on imported alternatives.
“By sourcing PMS locally at N699 per litre, marketers are better positioned to pass on price relief to consumers, enhance market stability, conserve foreign exchange, and support Nigeria’s broader economic recovery and energy security objectives,” the refinery said.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery accused fuel importers of promoting false reports to justify recent, unwarranted increases in petrol pump prices, noting that such actions run counter to national interest and impose unnecessary hardship on Nigerians.
According to the refinery, without domestic refining, petrol prices could rise to as much as N1,400 per litre in a post-subsidy environment, highlighting the stabilising role of local production.
