State-run Engineers India Ltd (EIL) said on Saturday that it has signed a more than $350 million, or roughly ₹3,170 crore, contract with the Nigeria-based Dangote Group for the expansion of its flagship refinery.
Dangote Group plans to add a second train to expand its refining capacity from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day producing Euro VI grade fuels, EIL said.
The Group is also expanding its Polypropylene production from 830,000 tonne per annum (TPA) to 2.4 million TPA Polypropylene by revamping existing Polypropylene Unit (PPU) and installing additional PPU of 1.2 MMTPA, plus a world scale 750 kTPA UOP’s Oleflex Unit to supplement Propylene feed to PPU. The latest expansion further reinforces Nigeria’s mission to become a regional hub for refined petroleum products and petrochemicals, it added.
“Dangote Group has once again joined hands with EIL in this endeavour and has signed a contract agreement of value more than $350 million to engage EIL as project management consultant (PMC) and engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) consultant for this project,” EIL noted.
Once completed, this expansion will position Dangote as the world’s largest petroleum refinery, strengthening fuel production within Africa, reducing reliance on imports and supporting regional energy security, it added.
“This contract is a strong affirmation of the trust reposed in EIL’s capabilities to deliver projects of exceptional scale and complexity. As we move into this next phase, EIL will bring its decades of experience, multidisciplinary strengths and global execution model to support Dangote in creating one of the world’s most advanced and fully integrated energy complexes,” the CPSU said.
The proposed expansion to 1.4 million barrels per day is a project of global significance and will stand among the largest refinery complexes at a single location, it added.
The Lagos-headquartered Dangote Group is Nigeria’s foremost multinational conglomerate and a dominant industrial force in West Africa. With diversified interests spanning upstream oil & gas, mining, petrochemicals, fertilisers, cement, sugar and food; the Group is one of the region’s largest employers and operates across 17 African countries.
Its flagship 650,000 barrels-per-day integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in the Lekki Free Zone is the world’s largest single-train refinery, producing Euro-V quality gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and polypropylene.
EIL, a Public Sector Undertaking under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG), is a leading engineering consultancy providing concepts to commissioning services across Oil & Gas, Petroleum, Refining. Ferrous & Non-Ferrous, Fertilisers, Infrastructure and Renewable Energy sector.
Published on January 17, 2026
