Dangote Refinery IPO Demand Soars, Price Questioned
Nigeria's Dangote refinery IPO closes on 13 October. Demand is strong, but the US$49 billion price is more than twice...
October 2, 2026Topic
refining
Morocco’s SAMIR Refinery: How the Kingdom Lost Its Only Oil Refinery
Morocco's only oil refinery, SAMIR, has been idle since 2015, leaving the kingdom to import all its fuel. What went...
September 21, 2026
A Lagos Court Tells Nigeria’s Fuel Regulator to Leave Dangote Alone
A Dangote refinery injunction bars the NMDPRA from enforcing its 24 August order suspending loading at the Lekki plant, pending...
September 2, 2026
Ghana Orders Gold Refined at Home, With No Accredited Refinery
Ghana gold refining becomes compulsory for aggregators from 1 September, though none of the licensed plants holds London Good Delivery...
August 29, 2026
Nigeria Now Ships Seven Times More Fuel Than It Did Three Years Ago
Nigeria petroleum exports rose from 46,000 barrels a day in 2023 to 350,000 in the second quarter of 2026, US...
August 27, 2026
Nigeria Crude Swap Plan Aims to Cut Refiners’ Costs
Nigeria's upstream regulator NUPRC is consulting producers and refiners on a crude swap framework intended to strip haulage costs out...
August 17, 2026
West Africa Wants to Stop Pricing Its Petrol Off Europe
A West Africa fuel benchmark would end the region's reliance on European price references, Nigeria's regulator argued in Abuja. Nothing...
August 15, 2026
Guinea Bans Raw Gold Exports, Demands Local Refining
Guinea has banned raw gold exports and now requires local refining before shipment, with a 90-day transition period ending 6...
August 10, 2026
Angola Fuel Import Bill Soars 48% to US$1.7 Billion
Angola's fuel import bill rose 47.8% to about US$1.7 billion in the first half of 2026, outpacing what the state...
August 4, 2026