Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector may be heading for another showdown as independent fuel marketers have pushed back against the federal government’s demand for cut in pump prices. The marketers have threatened to shut down filling stations nationwide if the government imposes price controls despite the country’s deregulated fuel market, r...
Determined to significantly reduce the importation of petroleum products by major marketers, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery has made a renewed overture to the affected operators by offering them the option of coastal loading. This comes despite the additional logistics cost associated with transporting petroleum products by vessel from the ref...

