Kamfanin Dangote, mai mallakin babbar rafiniyan man fetur a yammacin Afirka, ya shirya fara samar da man fetur daga sassan man fetur biyu a Nijeriya a kwata na huɗu na shekarar 2024, a cewar rahoton da S&P Global Commodity Insights ta wallafa a ranar 10 ga Oktoba.
Rahoton, wanda ya nuna madadin kamfanin, ya bayyana cewa Dangote yanzu yake neman jirgin samarwa, ajiya, da kasa da zai iya ɗaukar galan man fetur 650,000. Samar da man fetur a sassan kamfanin na Oil Mining Leases 71 da 72 za fara ne da galan 20,000 kowace rana, sannan za kara samarwa zuwa kwata na farko na shekarar 2025.
Kamfanin Dangote yana da hissa 85% a cikin West African E&P Venture, wanda yake da hissa 45% a cikin sassan biyu, yayin da kamfanin NNPC yake da hissa 55%. Sauran masu hissa a West African E&P sun hada da kamfanin First E&P na Nijeriya, wanda yake gudanar da OMLs 71 da 72.
Lasisin sassan biyu suna cikin ruwan rasa a kudu maso gabashin yankin Niger Delta, kusan kilomita 22 daga terminal din Bonny a ƙasa. Yankin ya ƙunshi filayen man fetur na Kalaekule da Koronama.
Tun da farko an gano albarkatun man fetur a sassan biyu a shekarar 1966, sannan kamfanin Shell ya fara samarwa a can shekaru ashirin bayan haka. Samar da man fetur ya kai kololuwa a shekarar 1999, sannan ta fara raguwa a shekarar 2003, a cewar S&P.
Yayin da rahoton ya nuna cewa har yanzu filayen suna da albarkatun da za a iya samarwa na galan man fetur kusan 300 million da kubik mita 2.3 trillion na iskar gas, samar da man fetur a sassan OMLs 71 da 72 zai iya taimakawa rafiniyan Dangote wajen samar da kayan ajiya bayan wata tashin hankali ta samar da man fetur da ta fuskanta.