The Federal Government has promised stringent measures for gas companies seeking gas distribution licences in the country.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, who addressed journalists when he visited the scene of last weekend’s explosion in the Ita Oshin area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, said the federal government would begin to scrutinise the capacity of the firms to build pipelines for gas distribution as a requirement for the issuance of licences.
He said the regulators would henceforth emphasise the issuance of distribution licences that would require the distributors to invest in the installation of pipelines to deliver gas directly to end users — rather than trucking to consumers.
