Kachikwu Lauds Techno Oil on Cylinder Manufacturing Plant

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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has lauded Techno Oil for its initiative in building a cylinder manufacturing plant that will produce five million cylinders yearly.

He said his ministry was doing everything possible to make Nigerians embrace Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), better known as cooking gas.

The minister stated this recently when a 15-member federal government inter-ministerial team inspected the LPG cylinder manufacturing plant, ahead of its inauguration.

The multi-billion-naira facility was expected to produce five million cylinders of various sizes annually and generate no fewer than 6,000 jobs. Speaking to newsmen after touring the plant, Kachikwu, who was represented by his Senior Adviser, Downstream and Infrastructure, Mrs Brenda Ataga, said the federal government was working out a package of incentives to encourage investors in the oil and gas sector.

She said the ministry of petroleum resources would set up a unit to liaise with the Federal Ministry of Finance to package tariff incentives for credible investors in the oil and gas sector. According to her, the federal government was keen on ensuring that every Nigerian household embraces cooking gas rather than using fire wood and other harmful energy sources.

Also speaking during the inspection, the Head, Gas Monitoring and Regulatory Division in the Department of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Sanya Bajomo, said he was impressed with what he saw at the plant.

“It is a thing of joy that we can now manufacture LPG cylinders in Nigeria, instead of importing. We give kudos to Techno Oil for preparing the ground for every household to adopt cooking gas,” he added.