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Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery restarted production at its 204,000 barrel per day gasoline unit as planned on October 19 at a run rate of 60%, industry monitor IIR said.
The unit is expected to maintain that rate until a planned maintenance shutdown between December 2025 and January 2026 is completed, IIR added.
A spokesperson for the Dangote Refinery said the plant started much earlier, without specifying a date, and that it was operating at 85% capacity.
The outage on the unit, which began in late August, helped improve export economics from Europe to West Africa to cover the shortfall, boosting European gasoline refining margins.
News late last week of the planned restart of production on the unit pushed margins to about $16.50 a barrel on Monday, according to Reuters calculations, down from about $20 a barrel on October 16.
Kpler data shows gasoline exports from Europe to West Africa on track to reach about 300,000 bpd in October, their highest since May.
The 650,000 bpd Dangote refinery, the largest in Africa, was built by billionaire Aliko Dangote, and has undergone several rounds of maintenance this year, leading to reduced crude demand.
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