Dangote donates $700,000 tree seedlings to Lekki

The Dangote Petrochemical Refinery has donated tree seedlings worth $700,000 to communities in Lekki area of Lagos where it proposed to site its multi-million dollars refinery.
The trees will replace those cut down from the 2600 hectares of land by workers on the site of the project located at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos.
Madhav Kelkar, Senior General Manager Civil/Structural of Dangote Oil Refinery Limited, who disclosed this to reporters  in Lagos, said the company donated the trees to the locals in fulfillment of its mandate to add value to the lives of its host communities.
He said the critical aspect of the project which is land reclamation would be concluded in the next five months, to give way for installation of the plants components.
He said the contractors, Jan De Nul of Belgium and Sarathy Geotech of India have been fully mobilised to facilitate the dredging and soil investigation of the 2,600 hectares of land that will accommodate the petrochemical and fertilizer plants.
“We have in place state-of-the-art technology and equipment, to ensure the value chain, which consists of crude reception facility to the processing facility, are adequately integrated,” he also said.
General manager Dangote fertilizer, Jaiswal Anurag, told reporters that the fertilizer plant has attained 90 percent of engineering work and that 80 percent of equipment have arrived the country.
Anurag also said that other contractors, Trevi Foundation, Onshore Construction, SAIPEM, TATA and Dantata & Sawoe have fully mobilised to site.
He said the fertilizer plant is most likely to take off before the petrochemical.
On the level of work done at the temporary jetty, Emmanuel Chukwu, project engineer of Dantata & Sawoe said work on the site has attained 95 percent completion.
“We will complete dredging, loading and offloading facilities this month (October). The dredging will link the facility from the lagoon to the sea. We are moving at a very high speed because we commenced work on July 2014 and this October we shall be completing all the work,” he assured.