Africa in a World Context

Refining Capacity and Petroleum Product Trade

Country

Number
of
Plants

Crude
Distillation
Capacity*
(1000 b/d)

1996 Trade
(1000 bbl/d)

Country

Number
of
Plants

Crude Distillation Capacity* (1000 b/d)

1996 Trade
(1000 bbl/d)

Product
Imports

Product
Exports

Product
Imports

Product
Exports

Cameroon

1

35.0

4

0.3

Angola

1

39.0

0.4

3

Central African Rep.

0

0

2

0

Botswana

0

0

8

0.2

Chad

0

0

1

0

Comoros

0

0

1

0

Congo

1

21.0

0.3

5

Lesotho

0

0

1

0

Dem. Rep. Of Congo

1

17.0

14

0.1

Madagascar

1

15.0

5

0.4

Equatorial Guinea

0

0

1

0

Malawi

0

0

5

0

Gabon

1

17.3

2

1

Mauritius

0

0

16

0

Sao Tome & Principe

0

0

1

0

Mozambique

0

0

7

0

SUBTOTAL-C.Africa

4

90.3

25

6

Namibia

0

0

8

0

Burundi

0

0

3

0

South Africa

4

468.5

21

67

Djibout

0

0

11

0.02

Swaziland

0

0

3

0

Eritrea

1

18.0

0

4

Zambia

1

24.5

0.3

1

Ethiopia

0

0

12

0

Zimbabwe

0

0

28

0

Kenya

1

90.0

17

8

SUBTOTAL-S. Africa

7

547.0

104

71

Rwanda

0

0

5

0

Benin

0

0

4

0.2

Seychelles

0

0

3

0

Burkina Faso

0

0

5

0

Somalia

1

10.0

2

0.3

Cape Verde

0

0

1

0

Sudan

1

21.7

6

1

Cote d’Ivoire

2

69.0

8

6

Tanzania

1

14.9

3

1

Gambia

0

0

2

0

Uganda

0

0

7

0.1

Ghana

1

45.0

5

3

SUBTOTAL-E. Africa

5

154.6

68

14.42

Guinea

0

0

8

0.04

Algeria

4

502.7

4

401

Guinea-Bissau

0

0

2

0

Egypt

8

577.8

3

111

Liberia

1

15.0

3

0.02

Libya

3

348.4

1

147

Mali

0

0

4

0

Morocco

2

156.8

25

8

Mauritania

0

0

3

0

Tunisia

1

34.0

47

13

Niger

0

0

5

0

Western Sahara

0

0

1

0

Nigeria

4

438.8

49

14

SUBTOTAL-N. Africa

18

1,619.7

81

680

Senegal

1

17.0

8

1

Sources: Oil and Gas Journal; Energy Information Administration.
bbl/d = barrels per day  *as of 1/1/99

Sierra Leone

1

10.0

1

0.1

Togo

0

0

4

0.1

SUBTOTAL-W. Africa

10

594.8

109

24

 

Total Africa

44

3,006

387

795