Petrol price falls to N142 per litre, NNPC Corporation says
The
Corporation said its sustained strategic intervention in the efficient
supply and distribution of petroleum products led to the significant
fall in the prices of the products.
A statement issued on Sunday, September 3, by the NNPC spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu,
said a national survey by oil and gas forum, NNPC's weekly TV
programme, indicated that in the last few weeks, the price of petrol has
fallen steadily from N145 per litre to between N142 and N143 per litre
in some stations across the country.
Ughamadu
said the study showed that NNPC mega and affiliate stations across the
country are selling the product for N143 per litre, while the pump price
range from between N142 and N145 per litre in
some major and
independent marketers in Lagos, Abuja, Sokoto, Enugu, Delta and other major cities.
He said: "One
of the respondents in the survey and a manager at an independent fuel
retail station in Abuja, Mohammed Abdullahi, said the station currently
sells petrol at N142 per litre in line with the prevailing market
situation in order to sustain the turnover of the business and to
attract more motorists to the station.
"Another
independent marketer in Mosimi, Emeka Ikechukwu, said the going
ex-depot prices of PMS had dropped from N138 per litre in most depots to
N133.28 in NNPC depots and between N130 and N131 per litre in private
depots.
"However, the situation
is slightly different in Aba and Umuahia in Abia State and Calabar in
Cross River state where most independent fuel stations as well as major
marketers selling the product at N145 per litre.
"The
survey also showed a similar trend of drop in price for cooking gas
with the average price for refilling 5kg cylinder at N2,215.96 from the
former price of N2,500.00.
"The
study further revealed that states with the lowest average price for the
5kg LPG refill were Kaduna and Niger at N2,000; Kogi at N2,005.00; and
Oyo at N2,033.33."
Ughamadu said the prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also known as cooking also crashed.
"At
the NNPC Mega and retail stations nationwide, a 12.5kg of cooking gas
that was sold for N4,500 a few months ago is now sold for N3,800 while
other retail outlets sell the same quantity for N4,000.
"NNPC
has sustained its interventions through sustained improvement in the
supply of the products and remodeling of distribution channels to
address sufficiency issues across the country," he said.
According to him, the NNPC has stepped up the resuscitation of some of its "critical pipelines and depots"
such as the Atlas Cove - Mosimi depot Pipeline, Port-Harcourt Refinery -
Aba depot Pipeline, Kaduna - Kano pipeline and the Kano depot which
have enhanced efficiency in products distribution.
He
said there are ongoing efforts to revamp and re-commission other
critical pipelines and depots nationwide, to further push down the
prices of petroleum products for the benefit of consumers.
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