Delta Steel Company Warri plant
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Delta Steel Company Warri plant, also known as Premium Steel and Mines Limited, PSML, Delta Steel Company (DSC), and Ovwian-Aladja (predecessor), is a 1300 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.
- Location: Vwian-Aladja, Warri, Delta State, Nigeria[1]
- Coordinates (WGS 84): 5.480763, 5.769839 (exact)
Background
History
Premium Steel and Mines Limited, formerly known as Delta Steel Compay (DSC), was created in 1982 to lead steel production in West Africa and create thousands of jobs for Nigerians.[2] The plant suffered from corrupt management that led to a decline in production by the late 1990s.[2] The plant closed temporarily in 1995 and workers were owed a backlog of salaries and bonuses of as much as N11 billion.[2]
In 2005, the plant was sold to Global Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, in a fixed deal by the Nigerian President Olusegun Obasajo, which violated the Public Enterprises Act.[2] Global Infrastructure Nigeria Limited was a subsidiary created by the Mittal Brothers to purchase DSC.[2] The plant continued to operate under corrupt management that used "economic sabotage and tax evasion."[2] DSC was eventually sold to Premium Steel and Mines Limited, another Indian-owned company, in another fixed bidding process, that has also faced public controversy.[2]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Plant status | Start date | Workforce size |
|---|---|---|
| operating[1] | 1982[3] | 800[4] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Owner | Owner company PermID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Steel and Mines Limited (PSML) [100%][5][1] | GEM0000365 [100%] | Delta Steel Co Ltd[5][1] | 4296631771 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Main production equipment | Detailed production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| semi-finished; finished rolled[6][7] | billets, rolled products, wire rod and mesh, equal angles, IPN profile, U profile, square bar, round bar[6][7] | direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF)[3][8] | 1 Midrex DRI plant (2 modules, 1.02 MTPA, began in 1982); EAF (# unknown)[9][8][3] |
Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
| Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|
| 1300 TTPA[1] | 1300 TTPA |
Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
| Sponge iron/DRI capacity | Nominal iron capacity (total) |
|---|---|
| 1020 TTPA[8] | 1020 TTPA |
Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Pellets |
|---|
| >0 TTPA[10] |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20200921190415/https://premiumsteelandmines.com.ng/about.php. Archived from the original on 2020-09-21.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 How Nigerian government, Indians wreck multi-billion dollar Delta Steel Company, rip off host communities and tax payers, Ajibola Amzat, The Guardian, Feb. 12, 2018, Retrieved on: Sep. 17, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220114115907/https://guardian.ng/features/how-nigerian-government-indians-wreck-multi-billion-dollar-delta-steel-company-rip-off-host-communities-and-tax-payers/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-14.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220930040703/https://guardian.ng/property/delta-steel-story-of-arrested-dreams-to-industrialise-nigeria/. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20211108150506/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/were-replacing-obsolete-equipment-not-assets-stripping-premium-steel/. Archived from the original on 2021-11-08.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220126190905/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314252681_The_Challenge_of_Domestic_Iron_and_Steel_Production_in_Nigeria. Archived from the original on 2022-01-26.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20200801144437/http://premiumnigeria.com:80/index.html. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220318083849/http://www.midrex.com/wp-content/uploads/Midrex-Plants-Sheet2021-1.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-03-18.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220122093145/https://www.midrex.com/about-midrex/midrex-plants/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220125182311/https://www.icirnigeria.org/investigation-delta-steel-company-is-dead-its-former-staff-are-dying/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-25.
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