By Macson Obojemuinmoin
Aradel Holdings is planning to commission the Gasoline Production Train in its Refinery by middle of 2027.
Adebola Adesina, the company’s Chief Financial Officer, spoke of the likely coming on stream of the 3,000Barrels of Oil Per day unit at the AOW Energy conference in Accra, Ghana on September 2, 2026.
“We are hoping we could deliver in the first half of 2027″, the company officially told Africa Oil+Gas Report yesterday, September 8, 2026.
Aradel’s Gasoline Unit is small in the context of the Nigerian gasoline ecosystem, but it will be the only gasoline producing plant in Nigeria outside the mammoth Dangote refinery, which produced 26Million Litres per day of the product in July 2026.
Work on the plant, located within Aradel’s 11,000Barrel Per Stream Day Refinery in Ogbele in eastern Nigeria, had been mechanically completed as far back as mid-2025. There have been issues around human expertise, sourcing sweet naptha and hydrogen for the plant, as well as upgrading the power plant in the facility to double down on guarantees of constant power supply.
Gbite Falade, CEO of Aradel spoke of the challenges of the installing the plant in a 2024 interview with Africa Oil+Gas Report. “PMS Train is a very delicate process plant. There are very few commissioning engineers worldwide that have the capacity to commission that, one of the storms we’ve run into in the recent past is finding people who have the skill but are not tied up to some other projects. It’s only recently that we’ve been able to identify the right commissioning engineers. We believe that commissioning is going to take quite a while. It’s not a commission where someone comes and turns on a switch because you have a reactor, you have different complicated chemical systems that must be properly put into service. And so, we strongly believe that it’s only when they’ve started that we’ll be able to reasonably advise when we think it will be coming on stream”.
