NCDMB commissions gas plant in Katsina to address supply constraints
Butane Energy Limited, one of the gas-based businesses supported with an equity investment by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has opened its 100 metric tons Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Storage and Bottling Plant in Kabukawa layout, Katsina State. The project, which was commissioned on Saturday by Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari, […]
Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB
Butane Energy Limited, one of the gas-based businesses supported with an equity investment by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has opened its 100 metric tons Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Storage and Bottling Plant in Kabukawa layout, Katsina State.
The project, which was commissioned on Saturday by Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari, is to help address supply constraints in the domestic LPG market in the northern part of Nigeria through its plant operations/bulk storage, transportation/distribution, cylinder filling and bulk retail.
A statement from NCDMB explained that the project in Katsina State is the first leg of its partnership with Butane Energy Limited with the other LPG bottling plants and depots to be rolled out in 2022.
The Executive Secretary of the board, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, while speaking during the commissioning stated that Butane Energy’s LPG storage and bottling plants would come up in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and Bauchi states while six depots would be located in Zamfara, Jigawa, Gombe, Plateau, Niger and Nasarawa states.
He stated that Nigeria still has one of the lowest per capita LPG consumption in Africa and a lot of opportunities exist for increasing LPG penetration and utilization in the country.
Also speaking, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, hinted that commissioning the plant is directly linked to the declaration of the decade of gas by President Muhammadu Buhari.
It seeks to reinforce Nigeria’s aspiration to leverage on its gas resources estimated at 206 trillion cubic feet to develop Nigeria’s national industrial, commercial and agricultural base.