{"id":150737,"date":"2026-05-03T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150737"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:00:14","slug":"fuelling-a-continent-how-chinas-engineering-prowess-built-africas-biggest-oil-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150737","title":{"rendered":"Fuelling a continent: how China\u2019s engineering prowess built Africa\u2019s biggest oil refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the energy shock unleashed by tensions in the Middle East rippled through Africa, a massive oil refinery in Nigeria\u2019s biggest city of Lagos, owned by Africa\u2019s wealthiest man, came to the rescue.<br \/>\nRunning at its full capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, the world\u2019s biggest single-train refinery supplied fuel to many African countries that usually relied on imports through the Strait of Hormuz, from Senegal in the west to Mozambique in the southeast.<br \/>\nBuilt at a cost of about US$20 billion,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352256\/fuelling-continent-how-chinas-engineering-prowess-built-africas-biggest-oil-refinery?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the energy shock unleashed by tensions in the Middle East rippled through Africa, a massive oil refinery in Nigeria\u2019s biggest city of Lagos,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}