FG To Roll Out CNG/LPG Autogas Stations October 1
TAYO ELEGBEDE
The Federal Government will on October 1, this year, roll out CNG/LPG retrofitted autogas stations nationwide.
The Chairman of the Gas Expansion Programme, Mohammed Ibrahim, made this known at a stakeholders meeting held at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) headquarters.
He reiterated the President’s desire to launch the program’s on the said date, adding that driving local consumption of natural gas is the mandate.
According to him, the President will be commissioning ten units of retrofitted CNG/LPG autogas stations using the stations from the NNPC retail network nationwide as pilots.
Ibrahim noted, “When the pilot programme starts and it’s successful, wider stakeholders shall be engaged, and that in due time LPG skid plant owners would learn on their own and begin to convert vehicles to autogas.”
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had in January 2020 inaugurated the Nigerian Gas Expansion Programme with the mandate of boosting the country’s utilisation of natural gas both in the short, medium and long term.
In July, the Federal Government set up the Autogas and Natural Gas Vehicles Committee, as a sub-committee of the National Gas Expansion Programme, with the sole aim of pushing gas as an alternative fuel for vehicles in Nigeria.
Stakeholders at the meeting expressed their readiness for the roll-out but called for the standardisation of the CNG/LPG retrofitted autogas stations.
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