The United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has announced to offer a grant of
$997.4 million dollars (about ₦251.3 billion) as training support for the proposed refinery by the Dangote Group, according to NAN/BusinessDay report.
The grant was announced at the signing of a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) between Dangote Group and the USTDA.
Enoh Ebong, USTDA’s Deputy Director, said that the agency was pleased to support the Dangote Oil Refining Company’s efforts to
increase Nigeria’s oil refining capacity. She said it was a “sign of deepening the United States’ long history of support for vital
infrastructure in Nigeria.’’
The chairman of Dangote Group, Alahaji Aliko Dangote, lauded USTDA for its assistance toward the takeoff of the refinery. He said
the aspect of training and capacity
development was vital to the success of the project. “For such a high-tech project investment, getting the right quality of human capital to run the plant is considered to be possibly the most critical
success factor”.
Furthermore Dangote added that “we are, therefore, most grateful for the generous grant from the USTDA to support the training of some of the operators needed to successfully
operate the Greenfield 650,000 bpd capacity refinery,” Dangote said.
The grant is expected to fund the training of more than 100 staff on the use of UOP technology licensing and engineering services.
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