•Dangote Refinery CNG trucks
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has officially rolled out over 1,000 Compressed Natural Gas-powered trucks for its direct distribution of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) nationwide.
The refinery had announced in August that it had received the first batch of its 4000 CNG-powered trucks for the fuel distribution programme, which was initially set to commence on August 15, reports Daily Trust.
The refinery had said the decision to adopt direct fuel distribution was to reduce dependency on third-party carriers for fuel distribution in Nigeria.
Anthony Chiejina, group head of corporate communications, Dangote Group, today at the refinery, told newsmen that the adoption is a transition from “an old to a new order ”
He spoke at the refinery’s gantry where loading of about six CNG trucks were demonstrated to the newsmen.
“You can see the trucks, the difference is clear. We have 1,000 here and about 500 at the port. The rest are coming. So, by the end of the month we get the 4,000 CNG trucks here.
“That’s a big transformation, within one year we have been able to transit from old to the new one,” Chiejina said.
