The Kero-Direct Scheme (KDS), a project put together by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in partnership with Capital Oil and Gas will generate about 3,000 direct employments for Nigerians.
Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Industries, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, who disclosed this at the weekend said in the last one week, the company had employed about 250 youths, while additional 2,750 would be employed in the next six months.
The Kero-Direct Schme (KDS) was put together by the NNPC in partnership with Capital Oil and Gas Industries to supply kerosene directly to households in the country.
The project, which kicked-off in Lagos last Saturday with Amuwo -Odofin and Apapa Local Government Areas as starting points, will be extended to all the 57 LGAs in Lagos and subsequently to other parts of the country.
Under the arrangement, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the NNPC will provide the product that will be sold to end users at the official rate of N50 per litre. The product will be dispensed through the use of Capital Oil dispensing trucks.
Ubah said to ensure that middlemen do not hijack the scheme, the sale would be restricted to 25 litres to each household, adding that about 880 households from each of the 57 local councils in Lagoswill benefit on weekly basis.
He said his company had acquired seven large barges and five tug boats, to ensure that the exercise was conducted without hitches, adding that the scheme was a bold effort by NNPC in partnership with Capital Oil to kerosene directly to the people.
“Capital Oil has been very concerned about the difficulty in getting kerosene for domestic use. It is in response to this that the company came up with this innovation of deploying mobile filling stations with standard dispensing pumps to deliver kerosene at official price of N50 per litre to Nigerians. The scheme will afford our people greater access to the product with a view to reducing the use of charcoal and fire woods, which are hazardous to health.
“With a storage capacity of 196 million litres and dispensing capacity of 56 million litres per day, our knack for efficiency and excellence is demonstrated in our innovative robustness as we operate a system that transfers product from our jetty to other nearby depots through integral underground pipe network. In addition to our depot, we can supply up to four other depots simultaneously. With our newly acquired seven large barges and five tug boats, we are more than poised to deliver quality service to the good people of Nigeria”, he said.
According to him, the choice of Amuwo-Odofin and Apapa as selling points for the commencement of the project was deliberate as those areas are among places with higher concentration of people.
Capital Oil and Gas has world class depot with the capacity to store about 196 million litres of products. The company also has dispensing capability of 56 million litres per day, 30 arms loading gantry, deepwater jetty that is capable of docking four large vessels simultaneously, 700 road tanker fleet, integrated products pipelines, regional strategic oil depots in Suleja, Funtua, Kano and Emene as well as 1,100 capacity-ultra modern truck park.
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