Petrol scarcity looms in
S’West, Ilorin, say marketers
The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has initiated plans for more vehicles in the country to run
on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) instead of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).
Speaking on “Domestic Gas
Utilization in Nigeria: From Producers to Users” at the Society of Petroleum
Engineers (SPE) yearly Oloibiri lecture series, the Group Managing Director of
NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, said the corporation has successfully completed a
pilot programme to introduce natural gas as fuel for transportation through
CNG.
According to Baru, over 4,000
cars, mostly commercial taxis, run on natural gas in Benin, served by a network
of six gas filling stations.
The General Manager,
Natural Gas of Green Gas Limited, Rajesh Prabhu, said adopting the CNG option
is sustainable, considering that Nigeria is one of the largest producers of
natural gas.
Baru stated: “The use of gas in transportation is cheaper, taxi
drivers save significantly on petrol cost by using gas, as CNG is sold at 46
per cent the price of petrol. Dangote cement factories are converting their
trucks to run on CNG as it is not only cheaper but it is neater and cleaner and
pilferage-free,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of
Nigeria (IPMAN) has said that scarcity of petroleum products is imminent in
parts of the South West over nonfunctional five depots supposed to serve the
area.
Speaking with reporters in Ilorin yesterday, the chairman of
Western zone IPMAN, Alhaji Debo Ahmed, said that the five NNPC depots had been inoperable
between two to five years ago.
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