Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says
that the government is working to reduce the price of petroleum
products by encouraging and working with private refineries and reducing importation. Osinbajo, who is in the UK to sign the Nigeria-UK solar energy agreement, told Bloomberg in an interview...
products by encouraging and working with private refineries and reducing importation. Osinbajo, who is in the UK to sign the Nigeria-UK solar energy agreement, told Bloomberg in an interview...
"We are going to be unbundling
the NNPC so that its various components are effective core centres and are able
to do their business well. We are going to have private refineries at the site
of the old refineries, so they can benefit from the available infrastructure.
So, we think that in the medium term, we would be able to get cheaper pump
price, pump price of oil would be cheaper because we would be importing far
less refined petroleum. A lot of that will be produced locally.
“Now, we have well over 30 modular refineries licences, so
we think a lot of modular refineries would come. Many of them, their major
concern is feed stock, are we going to be guaranteed feed stock? We are working
on that. Once we are able to deal with that, we feel we would substantially be
able to reduce pump price and get the whole business of importation of refined
petroleum and the NNPC just getting directly involved in business; we are going
to reduce that. The objective is to make the NNPC play more regulatory
function.
“They are options that are always there. But we think that
there are ways we can raise our own potion of contribution to the Joint
Ventures. It will only be a last resort and we have not come anywhere near
that.” Osinbajo said
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