Nigeria’s Dangote Oil Refinery Is Buying Ever More US Crude

Where does a giant refinery in Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, go to source the raw materials it needs to make fuels for the nation of 228 million people? Try crude fields around Midland in West Texas, about 6,500 miles away.

This year, the mega plant Dangote, near the commercial capital Lagos, bought a third of its crude from the US — the lion’s share of it being the grade West Texas Intermediate - Midland, ship tracking compiled by Bloomberg shows. The proportion has been almost double what it was in 2024, the ramp-up year.