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The Tower of Babel in Nigeria 🌐 Aliko Dangote has decided not to delay his plans to build the world’s largest refinery and is already actively selecting contractors to expand the existing Dangote Refinery — with Americans and Indians among the first partners. 📈 Construction of the original refinery cost around $20 billion, and it can process about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Now Dangote Group plans to increase production to 1.4 million barrels per day. ⏩To achieve this, Dangote is assembling a truly multinational team. One of the more charismatic participants is the American company Honeywell, which does everything from producing weapons and aircraft to corporate software. Here, it will supply specialized equipment, services, and industrial chemicals that speed up refinery processes. ⏩But Dangote also has his old friends — the Indians. The position of vice president of the current refinery is already held by an Indian, Devakumar V. G. Edwin, something that irritates many Nigerian patriots. 🔸 Now India’s Engineers India Limited is likely to take over the main construction and engineering work for the refinery’s expansion. EIL is a state-owned company under India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, created in 1965 to support oil refining and other major industrial projects. This multicultural lineup sounds impressive — until you realise that behind it lies Nigeria’s own lack of intellectual and industrial capital capable of building such a facility without pulling in specialists from every corner of the planet. Devils Below