The Federal Government has commenced moves that will ensure the utilisation of flared gas by converting and supplying the commodity as Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly known as cooking gas, to six million households across the country,
It was also gathered that the government had laid out a framework through which it would issue licences to private investors, allowing them to productively utilise the volumes of gas that would have been flared.
At the recent 2018 Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum, the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources on Refineries and Downstream Infrastructure, Rabiu Suleiman, stated that the government was working to further reduce gas flaring in Nigeria.
Suleiman specifically stated that the Federal Government inaugurated the Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme in December 2016, which was a high priority strategy for achieving the national mandate for gas flare-out by 2020.
The programme, he said, laid out a framework for the government to licence gas that would otherwise have been flared to technically credible and financially-sound third party private sector players.
On the expected deliverables of the commercialisation programme, Suleiman stated that the potential impact on Nigeria’s environment from flared gas utilisation was to give six million households access to clean energy through the usage of the LPG.
SOURCE: THE PUNCH.
