The world’s largest oil refinery project, Dangote Refinery in Nigeria, has recently completed construction and begun production. Over the last several years, XCMG Machinery has provided over 2,000 units of equipment, including excavators, cranes, road rollers, and more, to this mega refinery project, ensuring high-intensity, uninterrupted operation.
The Dangote Refinery project covers an area of 2,200 hectares and has the capability to process 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day into refined petroleum products. The refinery will produce 12,000 megawatts of electricity and create more than 135,000 permanent jobs.
XCMG’s products and services have safeguarded the smooth construction progress of the Dangote Refinery. During construction, the average runtime of a single XCMG excavator was more than 8,000 hours. To cope with the harsh environment as Lagos, a city by the sea, has high temperatures, humidity, and dust, which pose great challenges to the adaptability and reliability of construction machinery equipment, XCMG made customized upgrades and improvements to ensure optimum performance.
The XE470D excavator was the main force of the project, which is equipped with the powerful, low-consumption, and environmentally friendly Cummins engine, coupled with an intake system that adopts a three-stage filtration design. The inner and outer filters use Ultra-Web filtering material, which increases the filtration rate to 99.99 percent to cope with the dusty air.
XCMG’s tower cranes also participated in the Magufuli Bridge project, leaping across Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa. Composed of a 3,200-meter-long super-large bridge and a connecting 1,660-meter-long approach bridge, it will become the longest bridge in East Africa and the longest low-tower cable-stayed bridge in Africa, connecting Gaita Province and Mwanza Province in Tanzania.