Dangote Group is developing a planned 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Lamu, Kenya, with a 1,000-megawatt power plant and heavier processing equipment than its Nigerian refinery.
Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group, disclosed the plan on Friday, September 25, 2026, during Kenyan President William Ruto’s visit to the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Lagos, reported on September 28.
According to The PUNCH, the Lamu refinery will have a 1,000MW power-generation capacity, twice the capacity of the Nigerian refinery. Dangote also said the Kenyan project would feature heavier processing equipment, including a Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracker, a coker and a Vacuum Distillation Unit.
Dangote said the equipment would enable the refinery to handle the type of crude expected to be processed at the Kenyan facility.
The refinery is designed to process 700,000 barrels of crude oil daily. The planned facility will also include a one-million-tonne polypropylene plant, according to the newspaper’s September 28, 2026 report.
The project’s power-generation component is expected to go beyond supplying the refinery. The Star reported on September 26 that Dangote said about 500MW of the 1,000MW generated could be sold to the Kenyan government.
The Kenyan project is expected to serve markets in East and Central Africa. Engineers India Limited said on September 22 that it had secured a contract worth more than $450 million to provide project management consultancy and engineering, procurement and construction management services for the refinery and petrochemical complex.
Ruto said during his September 25 visit to Lagos that Kenya had secured land for the project and was working to complete the remaining requirements ahead of construction.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Lamu refinery is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30, 2026.
The project is expected to expand Dangote Group’s refining operations beyond Nigeria while giving Kenya additional domestic refining capacity and potentially supplying petroleum products to neighbouring markets.
