{"id":30466,"date":"2026-03-31T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30466"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:15:14","slug":"nigeria-allocates-more-crude-cargoes-to-dangote-refinery-for-may","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-allocates-more-crude-cargoes-to-dangote-refinery-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nigeria allocates more crude cargoes to Dangote refinery for May\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) is allocating seven crude \u200bcargoes for May loading to Nigeria&#8217;s Dangote refinery, \u200bup from the five it received in previous months, \u2060two trade sources told\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Fuel prices in Nigeria have \u200breached record highs and Dangote has previously said the company \u200bcould source only about five crude cargoes a month locally, far short of the 13\u201315 it requires, forcing it to import the rest \u200bat prices dictated by the impact of war in \u200bthe Middle East.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">An increase in crude allocations to the 650 000 barrel per \u200cday \u2060refinery, Africa&#8217;s largest, could also curb volumes of Nigerian crude available for export at a time when the Iran war has drastically cut supply from the Middle East, forcing buyers \u200bto hunt \u200bfar and wide \u2060for available cargoes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>NNPC and the refinery did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/div>\n<div>Dangote has \u200braised gasoline supplies to Nigeria\u2019s domestic market \u200bthis month, \u2060meeting the needs of a little more than two thirds of Nigeria&#8217;s daily requirements of 60 million litres.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It has also \u2060had \u200bto increase petrol depot prices by \u200babout 13%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16033,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-30466","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Fuel prices in Nigeria have \u200breached record highs.","published_date":"","news_description":"Fuel prices in Nigeria have \u200breached record highs.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30467,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30466\/revisions\/30467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}