FG bans export of cooking gas amid rising price

FG bans export of cooking gas amid rising price

The Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Hon
Ekperikpe Ekpo has disclosed there will be no export of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
(cooking gas) until local demand has been met.

 

The Minister who disclosed this at a workshop in Abuja on
Thursday said the government was working to improve supply to the domestic
market.

 

Government’s intervention came as the price of cooking gas
rose by over 20 percent this week from N1,030 per kilogram to N1,240/kg.

 

Despite the declaration of the decade of gas and the
government’s push to make gas a transition fuel, low production and rising
prices have continued to push Nigerians away from the use of LPG.

 

Ekpo said: “You have seen the demonstration by the federal
government by withdrawing all taxes and levies from importation of gas related
equipment. It is a big incentive on the issue. of LPG.

 

“We are interacting with the critical stakeholders to ensure
that there is no exportation of LPG. All LPG produced within the country will
have to be domesticated and when this is done, the volume will increase and of
course, the price will automatically crash. I’m in contact with the regulator,
NMDPRA (Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority), we
have meetings almost on a daily basis, and the producers of the gas like Mobil,
Chevron and Shell. So there is that hope that things will turn around.

 

Questioned on why the removal of taxes was not reflecting on
lower prices he said: “It is not going to reflect that way. We are dealing with
human beings. The policy has been put in place and the investors want to
maximise the profits that they are going to get from it all. At the end of the
day we have to come in. That is why you have the regulator and we are
interfacing with them to make sure they crash the price”, he added.

Source: FG bans export of cooking gas amid rising price

 - NigerianEye
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