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Petrol Queues: No need for panic buying, regulatory agency reassures Nigerians
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority says Nigeria currently has 20 days sufficiency of Premium Motor Spirit hence there is no need for panic buying by the public.
The downstream petroleum regulatory agency said it was also working round the clock with other stakeholders to address the issue of substandard PMS, also known as petrol, imported into the country.
NMDPRA Chief Executive, Mr Farouk Ahmed, made this known during a meeting with downstream industry stakeholders on Wednesday in Lagos.
The meeting had in attendance top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd., the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria.
Ahmed said the imported PMS was discovered to contain methanol above the specified volume adding that a technical team comprised of stakeholders was working towards resolving the issue.
He said: “Today, I am happy to say that loading has been going on in most of the depots because we have been able to identify, isolate and quarantine the limited amount of gasoline that was affected by the methanol volume that was discovered.
“We have vessels that have arrived the country recently.
“At least six arrived in the last few days ordered by the NNPC carrying a total volume of close to 300 million litres just to close to gap created by those vessels we have withdrawn from the system.
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