By Godfrey AKON
Greenville LNG Company Ltd, has commissioned its first gas hub station in Lafia, Nasarawa State to provide cost-effective Compressed Natural Gas, CNG and Liquified Natural Gas, LNG, fuelling options to the public.
The gas station, which is expected to ease energy problems by reducing public reliance on petrol and creating a more sustainable energy landscape, will dispense at full capacity, 32 tons of CNG per day and 220 tons of LNG per day.
Chairman of Greenville LNG Limited, Mr. Eddy Van den Broeke, said the station will provide among other things, cost-effective energy solutions, promotion of businesses for economic growth and development, as well as creation of desirable green climate.
Broeke, who stated this at the Commissioning of Greenville gas hub station in Lafia on Tuesday, stressed that these benefits could make the state to stand out as one of the leaders in green energy compliance in the country, positioning it for access to funding reserved for green-compliant entities.
Represented by the company’s Director of Inter-governmental Relations,
Alhaji Zubairu Bayi, he congratulated the people of Nasarawa State and Governor Abdullahi Sule, for his very focused, innovative productive and developmentalist leadership, which has attracted the investment.
“The conceptualisation, construction, completion and subsequent commissioning of this project is a clear testimony of Your Excellency’s unwavering resolve to provide and improve lasting developmental infrastructure which positively impact citizens’ lives across the length and breadth of this State and indeed the country in general.
“It is with worthy pride that we announce to the general public today that within our well-meant commitment to the Nasarawa State Government and the public, Greenville LNG has kept faith and delivered the first LNG-CNG Station in the State within the promised and planned period of one year,” he said.
He further noted that the Gas station, at full operation, will be providing CNG dispensing capacity of 32 tons per day; and 220 tons of LNG per day.
He said the project will generate considerable employment opportunities across various sectors such as transportation, small and medium enterprises, practically contributing to reduction of unemployment across the state.
On his part, the Nasarawa State Governor, Sule, lauded Greenville LNG for successfully completing the project within its promised and planned 1-year schedule.
Sule also urged the company to further spread its business operations beyond the state capital to other places across the state.
The governor said his administration will sponsor 50 youths to be trained as technicians for conversion of automotive vehicles to CNG-powered engines, as part of the gasification policy of the Nasarawa State Government in order to reduce and sustainably manage energy costs in the state.
He further called on local investors within Nasarawa State to align with Greenville LNG and invest in related businesses and projects across the length and breath of the state.
According to him, with the gas reserve in Nigeria estimated at 220 trillion cubic feet, the country is more of a gas state than a crude oil state.
He said the state has potentials to be an oil and gas state, while highlighting his dream of Nasarawa gas fields becoming gas farms which will eventually feed the gas requirements of companies such as Greenville LNG in the near future.
Greenville LNG is a leading producer and distributor of LNG and CNG for the domestic market; with an efficient virtual pipeline, consisting of more than 700 specialized LNG-powered gas delivery trucks capable of driving about 1,200 kilometres and 1,800 kilometres without the need to refuel.
