By Godfrey AKON
Nigeria’s leading domestic gas liquefaction and distribution company, Greenville LNG, has commenced fuelling of Nasarawa State-owned luxury buses with compressed natural gas, CNG.
The switch to alternative energy for the newly-acquired buses, is believed to practically upscale hope for a more secured energy future as the company has CNG readily available at its pioneering LNG/CNG gas station in Lafia, the state capital.
In a statement on Thursday, the state government said it purchased CNG-powered buses, from JAC Motors to be used for both intra and interstate travels by the Nasarawa Luxury Ride transport company, in its strong commitment to the industrial renaissance and development of the state through environmentally friendly businesses that operates, complies with and promotes regulated global carbon emission protocols.
According to senior state officials in Lafia, reasonable and lawful considerations for sustainable human health and safety as well as reasonable environmental protection concerns are the drivers of the Nasarawa State Government’s robust campaign for transition from heavy and corrosive carbon emitting fossil fuels to the use of the cleaner, more environmentally friendly, cheaper, and also more readily available CNG and Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG.
“With more interstate commuter routes set to be launched, the Nasarawa Luxury Ride transport company currently operates two interstate travel routes: Lafia to Abuja FCT, and Lafia to Jos in Plateau State with its new CNG-powered buses being cost-efficiently fuelled by Greenville LNG’s top quality CNG-dispensing facilities in Lafia,” the government said.
Recall that Governor Abdullahi Sule had, during the Nasarawa State Investment Summit which held in Lafia in May, emphasised the State Government’s agenda to meaningfully transit from heavy and costly fossil fuels to the use of the cleaner, more affordable and readily available Greenville LNG-CNG alternative energy sources for the industrial renaissance and economic transformation of Nasarawa State.
The governor had counselled energy investors in the state to take advantage of the opportunity and begin to invest in the construction of Greenville LNG’s franchised daughter stations across the State going forward.
According to him, the reasoning, it was reported, “is contingent on the fact that it is a technological reality as well as proactive commercial foresight to develop new energy businesses and related infrastructure to align with the now readily available, more affordable, and cleaner LNG and CNG offerings provided in the State by Greenville LNG, Nigeria’s pioneer domestic gas infrastructure developer.”
The governor has also given the pragmatic advice during the Energy Roundtable discussion at the Nasarawa Investment Summit which held at the Conference Hall of the Nasarawa State Government House in Lafia.
Both the State Government’s and senior Greenville LNG’s officials say the company’s now fully constructed LNG-CNG Gas Hub station in Lafia, even as it now operationally dispenses LNG and CNG to CNG-powered automotives, is due for official commissioning by the Nasarawa State Governor at the soonest convenience of key stakeholders this August.
Greenville LNG is Nigeria’s private sector’s leading producer and distributor of LNG and CNG for the domestic market.
“With the company’s efficient virtual pipeline consisting of more than 600 specialized LNG-powered gas delivery trucks capable of driving about 1,200 kilometres and 1,800 kilometres without the need to refuel.
“Grenville LNG from its Rumuji Gas Plant in Rivers State and from its active Gas hubs, delivers sustainable and more affordable LNG and CNG energy supplies to every part of Nigeria.
“With Gas Hub stations in Rumuji, Benin, Shagamu, Koton-Karfe, Kaduna and now Lafia, Greenville is working progressively to open 25 Hubs to enable the delivery of cleaner, more cost-efficient and more readily available LNG and CNG fuels for homes, the automotive industry and other industrial concerns, and for independent power plants outside the national power grid across the geo-spatial and economic spectrum of country,” the statement said.
