The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has increased its petrol supplies to the Nigerian domestic market in April, data from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) shows.
The NMDPRA April 2026 ‘State of the Midstream and Downstream Fact Sheet’ released on Tuesday showed that the refinery increased its Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) domestic supply from 34.2 million litres per day (ml/d) in March to 40.7ml/d in April, approaching its initial supply plan.
In January, the refinery pledged to supply 75 million litres of petrol daily against an estimated national consumption of 50 million litres.
“Dangote Refinery achieved 100 per cent capacity utilisation for most of the days in April,” the NMDPRA said.
The report showed that the volume of petrol imported in April dropped to 3.7mpb from 5.9 mpd recorded in March.
The authority also reported a sharp increase in petrol consumption, rising to 51.1 million litres per day in April, up from 47.3 million litres per day in the previous month.
The domestic supply of Automotive Gas Oil (diesel) increased to 8.5 ml/d in April from 3.9 ml/d in March, and the daily diesel consumption increased to 17.3 ml/d from 14.5 ml/d.
State-owned refineries performance
Despite the gains recorded by the Dangote Refinery and modular refineries, the NMDPRA disclosed that Nigeria’s four state-owned refineries produced zero in April.
It said the Port Harcourt Refinery remained shut down, though the evacuation of Automotive Gas Oil produced in March averaged 0.048 million litres per day, as against 0.0 in April.
The Warri and Kaduna refineries also remained shut down throughout the period.
Modular refineries
On modular refineries, the report said Waltersmith Refinery posted an average capacity utilisation of 56.14 per cent with AGO supply of 0.254 ml/d.
Edo Refinery posted an average capacity utilisation of 79.20 per cent with AGO supply of 0.092ml/d, while ARADEL recorded 33.95 per cent utilisation and supplied an average of 0.213ml/d of AGO.
The authority explained that the three modular refineries supplied an average of 0.559 million litres/day in April.
The report listed Nigeria’s 2026 daily consumption benchmarks as 50 million litres per day (ml/d) for petrol, 14 ml/d for diesel, 3 ml/d for aviation fuel (ATK), and 3.9 metric tonnes per day for cooking gas.
Actual daily truck-out consumption in April stood at 51.1ml/d for petrol, 17.3ml/d for diesel, 2.5ml/d for ATK and 4.8 metric tonnes per day for cooking gas.
“Consumption data is based on volumes trucked out into the domestic market. Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) figures are inclusive of propane,” it said.
