The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has clarified that the reported explosion at a filling station in Ikeja Lagos has nothing to do with the recently commissioned NNPC Gas Marketing Ltd (NGML)/NIPCO Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Stations.
NNPC, in a statement on Thursday by its Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye, clarified that the newly commissioned CNG stations are functioning and running safely without any incident.
The NNPC Ltd also add that “the NGML was not affected by the explosion; it is not involved in the activities of the affected station and all NGML facilities in Lagos, including pipelines, metering stations, above-ground installation and CNG facilities are in safe operating condition”.
Recall that the NNPC Gas Marketing Limited, a subsidiary of NNPC Limited, in partnership with NIPCO Gas Limited recently commissioned 12 new CNG stations in Abuja and Lagos state to provide alternative fuel for Nigerians.
They disclosed during the commissioning that the in addition to the massive deployment of CNG stations nationwide, they would also build three Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) stations in Ajaokuta.
Meanwhile, they have developed an Auto-CNG rollout plan for construction of thirty-five (35) CNG stations across the various geographical zones of the country.
