Can Dangote pull it off? Five questions over Kenya’s $17bn refinery
© Rights reserved Published on July 28, 2026 at 15:30 pm (GMT +1) When Dangote Industries unveiled plans to build a 700,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Kenya’s Lamu county, the announcement was met with enthusiasm, given its potential to shape East Africa’s energy ambitions.
At an estimated cost of $17bn, the refinery would become Kenya’s largest-ever private industrial investment and rank among Africa’s biggest energy projects, rivalling the scale of Dangote’s Lagos refinery, whose final cost exceeded $20bn.
One of the storage tanks at Dangote Refinery.
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