Nipco restates commitment to FG’S gas revolution agenda

• Converts 5,600 vehicles engines from petrol

I Na bid to drive Nigeria’s gas revolution agenda and contribute to the promotion of cleaner environment, Nipco Plc has converted a total of 5,600 vehicles in the country to use Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from petrol base.

This move, the energy firm said, is one of its efforts to provide access and alternative to motorists to power their automobiles. The Managing Director of the company, Mr. Sanjay Teotia, who disclosed this on the sidelines of the just concluded 11th International Conference and Exhibition of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) in Abuja, maintained that the conversion of the 5,600 vehicles were done at the company’s workshops in Benin, Edo State, and Ibafo, Ogun State.

Expressing delight to be part of the Nigerian gas revolution debate with specific emphasis on the gains, challenges and opportunities; and how it affects the industry and the country’s development, Teotia maintained that the gas sector of the economy has gone through series of legislation, including the Gas Master Plan aimed primarily at addressing some of the challenges by way of proffering solutions to boost the economy.

“Nipco has, since 2009, when it diversified into gas, has been supporting gov- ernment efforts to harness the nation’s gas resources through massive investment in pipelines infrastructure and construction of stations for both Liquefied Petroleum Gas and CNG across the nation. He added: “We have inaugurated nine CNG stations and a compression station, to aid natural gas access and utilisation across the country.”

Continuing, the NIPCO boss said: “A total of 5,600 vehicles have been converted to use CNG at the company’s workshops in Benin, Edo State and Ibafo, Ogun State, as one of the organisation’s efforts at providing access and alternative to motorists to power their vehicles. “With the inauguration of the compression station at ibafo in 2016, with a total capacity of 300.000 SCMD, gas is now being transported in cascades to other areas not linked with pipelines’ across the country.