Dangote’s proposed Kenyan oil refinery faces hurdles, not least with crude supply

CRUDE SOURCES In terms of feedstock, Kenyan President William Ruto's chief economic adviser has said the plant could secure 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day from within East Africa, including South Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya itself, according to Kenyan media reports.

The refinery will be built within the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) special economic zone, near Lamu Port, which currently has no operational oil storage terminals.

But the construction of his company's planned ​new 700,000-barrel-per-day Lamu refinery in Kenya promises to bring a whole new set of issues — not least where to secure crude supply in a country that, unlike oil-rich Nigeria, currently ‌has no commercial output.