Dangote’s CNG-powered Trucks Make First Fuel Deliveries To Lagos Stations

Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals has commenced delivering petrol to petroleum marketers crossed Lagos with its compressed earthy state (CNG)- powered trucks.

LEADERSHIP tin corroborate the improvement by observing the marked motortruck discharging contented astatine the Conoil filling presumption other the Ikeja General Hospital.

The inaugural aims to alteration Nigeria’s substance organisation scenery by reducing logistics costs and enhancing lawsuit proviso efficiency.

The fleet of substance tankers imported done Apapa Port represents a important superior concern estimated astatine N720 billion. This expenditure underscores the company’s committedness to pioneering innovative solutions arsenic its largest single-train refinery expands its operational capabilities.

Our reporter’s sojourn to substance stations successful the Ikeja country of Lagos observed the caller trucks actively discharging substance to large stations similar Conoil and MRS.

A operator from 1 of the CNG-powered vehicles stated, “We’ve started discharging substance with the truck. If you spell further down the road, you’ll spot different motortruck astatine the Conoil presumption besides discharging.”

At the Conoil presumption adjacent LASUTH, a tiny queue of motorists was seen waiting for the transportation to beryllium completed.

One of the motorists successful the queue, Adebayo Kunle, expressed his vexation with the hold time. “I’ve been present since past 11 a.m., and it’s present past 1 p.m., and I’m yet to get fuel,” helium said, attributing the hold to the ongoing transportation process and the clip needed for presumption unit to implicit their calculations.

Recall that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery had positioned astir 1,000 CNG-powered trucks to kick-start nationwide organisation of petroleum products to marketers.

Though the refinery demonstrated its capableness for phased commencement of the exercise, our analogous tin corroborate that marketers person started receiving products escaped arsenic earlier projected by the refinery management.

On Monday September 22, our analogous who monitored the concern sighted 1 of the trucks discharging merchandise astatine Conoil outlet other Lagos State wide hospital.

About 1,000 of the trucks are confirmed to beryllium connected the crushed with different 200 being discharged astatine the seaport successful Lagos.

By the extremity of October, the archetypal 4,000 trucks would beryllium successful the country.

Areas to payment successful the archetypal signifier of the workout is Abuja, Lagos, Kwara, Delta and Edo states.

This is happening arsenic the refinery revealed that the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) requested it to summation the terms of petrol and diesel by N75 per litre, successful bid to let its members to lucifer the refinery’s gantry prices astatine their respective depots.

If implemented, this would effect successful the pump terms of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and diesel rising to arsenic precocious arsenic N950 and N1,090 per litre respectively successful immoderate parts of Nigeria.

The refinery disclosed that though it offers petroleum products to marketers astatine its gantry price, DAPPMAN insists connected taking transportation via coastal logistics, an enactment that would adhd N75 per litre successful other costs. Based connected regular depletion volumes of 40 cardinal litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and 15 cardinal litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), this amounts to an further yearly outgo of N1.505 trillion (N1,505,625,000,000), which they efficaciously asked the refinery to sorb and walk connected to Nigerians.

“We privation to clarify that we person nary volition of expanding our gantry terms to accommodate specified demands, nor are we consenting to wage a subsidy of implicit N1.5 trillion, a signifier that historically defrauded the national Government for galore years. DAPPMAN and different marketers are invited to assistance products straight from our gantry and payment from our logistics-free initiative,” it said.

The refinery alleged its refusal to comply with DAPPMAN’s subsidy petition is the halfway crushed down caller nationalist criticisms and attacks. It reiterated that the refinery has capable capableness to conscionable home request and enactment exports arsenic it consistently maintains a monthly closing banal of 500 cardinal litres of refined products successful its tanks.

“Between June and September, the refinery exported a combined full of 3,229,881 metric tonnes of PMS, AGO, and aviation fuel, portion marketers imported 3,687,828 metric tonnes implicit the aforesaid period, an enactment that amounts to dumping, which is detrimental to the Nigerian system and the well-being of its citizens,” it said.

Reaffirming its committedness to supporting the betterment docket of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the refinery stated that done assorted strategical interventions, it has helped stabilise the Naira, cushion the effects of substance subsidy removal, presumption Nigeria arsenic a refining hub, boost overseas speech e...