By Busari Kabirat
It is a big relief for manufacturers, Industries and long vehicles as Dangote fuel hits Nigerian market to ease businesses while the refinery produces 650,000 barrels per day at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.
The refinery which has pegged a minimum of one million litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) diesel to each marketer is set to commence sales of product today.
It should be recalled that the retail price of diesel had already gone up to N1,500 per litre of which Dangote Refinery is selling products to Nigerian marketers at the expected price below N1,000.
Alhaji Abubakar Maigandi, who is the National President of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), made it known on Tuesday.
He said: “The least volume a marketer can buy is one million litres. Even now as I dropped the call someone was telling me they sell they wanted to start.”
He noted that there were strong indications that the refinery would commence the sale of the product on Tuesday.