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As part of its
determination to ensure the supply of petroleum products to all nooks
and crannies of our country, the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) says more floating mega filling stations are to be
constructed to cater to the people in the riverine areas.

NNPC Retail
Limited, which is a subsidiary of the NNPC assigned the responsibility
of handling the retail of petroleum products across the country, has 12
floating stations currently in operation at different parts of the
country, apart from 37 mega stations and 469 affiliate fuel stations
nationwide.

Managing Director,
NNPC Retail Limited, Oladipo Ajiboye, listed some of the floating
stations currently in operation with Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), or
diesel; Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), or petrol, and Dual Purpose
Kerosene (DPK), to include: the Nembe floating station in Rivers State
as well as those in Calabar and Ikang, all in Cross River State, and
Ibaka in Akwa Ibom State.

The oil executive,
who denied that the Okerenkoko floating station in Delta State has been
abandoned, said all the floating stations in the riverine communities,
including the ones located at Uta Ewa in Akwa Ibom State; Bonny in
Rivers State as well as Oporoma and Burutu in Bayelsa State are fully
operational, while efforts are in top gear to bring on stream the ones
affected by the crisis in the Niger Delta region.

Refuelling abandoned stations

He announced that
the NNPC Group Managing Director, Austen Oniwon, has already directed
that the construction of another floating mega station in Edo State
should go ahead, following a request by the state government, adding
that the completion of the project would gulp about N982 million.

“The NNPC is
waiting for the approval of the federal government to build additional
50 stations at different parts of the country. Some of the stations
will be mega models, while others will be standard affiliate stations,”
Mr Ajiboye said, adding that preliminary activities for the
construction of the stations have already commenced in Port Harcourt,
Yenegoa and Lagos.