President Bola Tinubu on Friday commissioned four major Compressed Natural Gas infrastructure projects spanning Lagos, Abuja and Owerri in a single-day rollout that significantly expands Nigeria’s clean transport network, declaring that the country’s energy future will be built from its own gas resources rather than imported alternatives.
The projects, all delivered under the Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund, were commissioned on the third anniversary of the administration and form part of the Federal Government’s accelerated response to the petroleum subsidy removal, designed to reduce transport costs, expand domestic gas utilisation and accelerate the country’s transition to cleaner fuels.
A statement signed Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the first two projects were commissioned at Ojota, Lagos.
The statement is titled ‘President Tinubu Commissions Four MDGIF-Supported CNG Projects In Major Push for Clean Transport Energy.’
The Portland Gas CNG Mother Station has a daily dispensing capacity of 96,000 standard cubic metres and includes two skid trucks for distribution, a 54-metric-tonne Liquefied CNG storage facility and an associated CNG Daughter Station at Kubwa, Abuja.
