Nigeria’s Dangote Group now expects to start production of urea in January 2019 at its new $2.5 billion plant nearing completion in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, about 50km east of central Lagos, according to the country’s Business Day, citing the group’s owner, Chairman and CEO Aliko Dangote.
Initial plans to start the plant in November were put back due to financial issues at the company that was to supply the gas, according to the report. But these issues are reported to have been resolved. The plant will have capacity to produce some 2.8 million mt/y of granular urea, with much of this expected to go into the export market. Dangote had not responded to inquiries by press time.