Dangote's proposed Kenyan oil refinery faces hurdles, not least with crude supply

Less than three years after overcoming surging costs, swampy terrain and inadequate infrastructure to launch Africa's biggest oil refinery in Nigeria, billionaire Aliko Dangote is set on replicating that project on the continent's opposite coast. But the construction of his company's planned new 700 000 bbl/d Lamu refinery in Kenya promises to bring a whole new set of issues — not least where to secure crude supply in a country that, unlike oil-rich Nigeria, currently has no commercial output.

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