{"id":46860,"date":"2026-09-30T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46860"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:45:01","slug":"dangote-to-begin-construction-of-16-billion-east-africa-refinery-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/dangote-to-begin-construction-of-16-billion-east-africa-refinery-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote to begin construction of $16 billion East Africa refinery in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto will break ground on \u200cWednesday to begin construction of a $16 billion oil refinery aimed at meeting growing demand for petroleum products across East Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dangote wants to replicate his group&#8217;s 700 000 barrel per day Nigerian refinery as countries including Kenya and Uganda look to start \u200bproducing crude oil.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Kenyan plant is slated to be completed in 2030, with the \u200baim of lowering the region&#8217;s fuel costs and saving hard currency used to import \u2060refined products.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;When you look at East Africa, not only East Africa, most of all the 54 countries \u200bin Africa, they import petroleum products,&#8221; Dangote told reporters in Nairobi on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;What we are trying to \u200bdo is to make sure that we become self-sufficient in whatever we consume.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dangote has offered regional governments a combined 30% stake in the refinery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Annual demand for petroleum products in the region is estimated at 20 million to 30 million metric \u200btons, said David Ndii, Chief Economic adviser to Ruto.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36273,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-46860","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Construction of $16 billion oil refinery ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46860","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\/46860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46861,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46860\/revisions\/46861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}