The Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria LNG Limited, Engr. Tony Attah has assured of his commitment to support the Federal Government decision and domesticate Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Nigeria.
Attah while speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit 2021 stated that LNG limited is committed to bringing domestic LPG into the country and an agreement will be signed to that regard.
“We want to really support the government in driving LPG because, today we will be signing agreement and contract to bring domestic LNG into the country just supporting the country in line with our vision to build a better nation.”
According to Attah, there has been a massive reduction in operational gas flaring by more than 65% way down to 12% and hope that the figure will further decline.
Attah further explained that the LPG limited in 2020 delivered more than 370, 000 tones which is almost 30% of the 1 million tones that was consumed and disclosed that for the first time Nigeria hit 1 million tones in terms of LPG.
Meanwhile, Attah posits that bringing greener energy into the country is a big deal for them as data has indicated that more than 100,000 people mostly women and children die on annual basis in Nigeria as a result of indoor inhalation of exhaust waste due to the use of dirty energy source.
He noted that Nigeria cannot sit back and rely on oil, because even the big six International Oil Companies (IOCs) are talking about decarbonization, going to zero.
“We cannot be an island unto ourselves and as such I believe that we must start to position more on gas, it is now time to fly on the wings of gas.”.