RE: Savannah \ accugas press10 Oct 2020 19:49
Good find TrustILie, this is a further indication of growth opportunities for SAVE in Nigeria and it looks as though the Nigerian Government are encouraging people to quickly modify their cars to use gas: 27% of fuel stations having been ordered to start supplying autos by the end of last month. This has got to have a big positive impact on SAVE.
The petroleum minister is hoping the price hike and support for gas-based alternatives will push Nigerians to start converting their petrol vehicles to run on LPG—also known as autogas—and natural gas from October.
“To give [deregulation] a human face, we are introducing an alternative fuel… Gas will now become fuel for our cars. This programme will be rolled out within the next month. So, if you go to a filling station and you convert your car to dual capability or dual fuel, then [when] you drive into a typical filling station you will find LPG, you find CNG [compressed natural gas] and LNG being sold,” the minister says.
At least 9,000 filling stations, c.27pc of the country’s total, have been ordered to begin installing facilities for gas products, and select stations will start dispensing autogas by the end of September. The government says it has at least 1mn autogas conversion kits readily available.