Dangote Refinery Exports First Petrol Cargo To US

 by Bunmi Aduloju

The first petrol shipment exported from the Dangote refinery to the United States (US) has reached the country.

Sources at the refinery told TheCable that the “vessel left the refinery to US about two weeks ago”.

According to MyShipTracking, a vessel tracking site, the shipment aboard the vessel, named Gemini Pearls, arrived in New York on Monday, citing the vessel’s automatic identification system (AIS).

On Tuesday, Reuters first reported that Vitol, international oil trader and Sunoco, North American fuel distributor, took delivery of the first US import of petrol from the refinery.

Reuters said the shipment, carried aboard the tanker Gemini Pearl, was discharged on Monday at Sunoco’s Linden terminal in New York Harbor.

According to the report, Vitol purchased Gemini Pearl’s cargo of about 320,000 barrels of petrol from Mocoh Oil, Switzerland-based company — selling most of it to Sunoco.

However, the publication noted that it was not immediately clear “what volume Vitol sold to Sunoco and how much it will keep”.

Reuters said a second shipment of petrol from the Dangote refinery to the US was sold by Glencore to Shell aboard the vessel ‘MH Daisen,’ which is expected to arrive in the New York Harbor area around September 19.

The publication said a third cargo, purchased by Vitol from Mocoh, is being transported on the vessel ‘Seaexplorer,’ and is scheduled to reach the New York Harbor area around September 22.