The Federal Government on Thursday declared that it was creating micro-distribution centres where users of cooking gas would access the commodity at affordable rates and rent cylinders.
It likewise revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other oil advertisers would begin introducing Compressed Natural Gas siphons at dispatching stations so as to make Nigerians move from the utilization of petroleum to the CNG in cars.
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, who uncovered these in Abuja, additionally proclaimed that the downstream oil area had been deregulated, read more news here.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mele Kyari, additionally uncovered that the COVID-19 pandemic had slowed down the restoration of the Port Harcourt processing plant.
Sylva said government was attempting to coordinate Nigerians from the utilization of lamp fuel to cooking gas, which was the reason it had begun turning out measures to accomplish this objective.
He stated:
“Today the reason why people cannot really use gas or why the penetration is low is because the initial capital outlay in using gas is quite high to the ordinary man.
“So what we are doing is to try and see how people can have access without necessarily investing all that money upfront.”
He added:
“With this we believe that gas will now begin to compete with other cooking fuels, because today the advantage that kerosene has over gas is that if you don’t have the money to buy a litre of kerosene, you can buy a bottle or half a bottle.
“But when we roll out this programme, gas will become more affordable and we believe that a lot more people will use gas.”
He further noticed that in the LPG strategy of government, the arrangement was to set up 32,000 miniaturized scale dissemination focuses cooking gas the nation over, which would see the commitment of 5,000 laborers, read more here.
Sylva said the administration was genuinely pushing for the utilization of the CNG in vehicles rather than the proceeded with utilization of petroleum.
