Big Names Join Dangote’s Direct Delivery Plan — Marketers Rejoice
Dangote Refinery’s logistics-free fuel delivery scheme is gaining momentum as Conoil, Eterna, and others join, eliminating delivery charges for registered marketers in eleven states and promising lower retail prices for consumers.
Major petroleum marketers in Nigeria — including Conoil PLC and Eterna PLC — have joined Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s logistics-free fuel distribution scheme, the Dangote Group announced. Other participants named are Golden Super, Nepal Energies, Kifayat Global Energy, and Riquest & Gas.
Under the initiative, refined petrol is transported from Dangote’s 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Lekki to participating outlets and bulk buyers without delivery charges. The scheme is intended to reduce transport-related costs that typically inflate retail pump prices for consumers.
The first phase of the program will cover eleven states: Lagos, Ekiti, Abuja, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Kwara, Delta, Rivers, and Edo. Expansion to additional states is planned as more delivery trucks become available. Filling station owners are being urged to register to participate.
The Dangote Refinery has deployed over 1,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) powered trucks for the free delivery scheme. Observers say marketers and bulk consumers are abandoning middlemen suppliers in favour of direct supply from Dangote to save on costs.
Punch reports, the rollout has drawn criticism from transport owners. Yusuf Othman, President of the National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), warned that existing formal agreements between truck owners and fuel marketers are being undermined. He stressed that many hauliers invested heavily based on contracts now threatened by free delivery by Dangote.
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