Africa's richest man's refinery ramps up to 700,000 barrels a day
Billionaires Africa | 05.06.2026 01:56
The numbers were already extraordinary. A 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery built from scratch by a private citizen in West Africa, surpassing Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq complex to become the world's largest single-train petroleum refinery. Exports of jet fuel to Europe, petrol to America, aviation fuel to Saudi Arabia. A facility that became the world's single largest jet fuel exporter in April, capitalising on Middle East supply disruptions that left global aviation markets scrambling. And now this: a verified performance test, conducted by the facility's own process licensors, showing the refinery processed 700,000 barrels per day, surpassing its own nameplate capacity for the first time.
