The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says country’s petrol daily consumption figure stands at 46.34 million litres per day, due to subsidy removal by the Federal Government.
Mr Ahmed Farouk, Chief Executive, NMDPRA, disclosed this during a stakeholders meeting with oil and gas downstream operators on Monday in Lagos.
He said that the figure represented 35 per cent reduction when compared with the 65 million litres per day, prior to subsidy removal.
According to him, an average truck out on daily basis for petrol consumption, after announcing subsidy removal on May 29, reduced to 46.34 millions litres per day.
“The current daily consumption has drastically reduced as against 65 million litres which had been the daily consumption before subsidy removal.
“In January, it was 62 million litres per day ; February, 62 million litres per day; March, 71.4 million litres per day; April, 67.7 million litres per day; May 66.6 million litres per day; June, 49. 5 million litres per day and July, 46.3 million litres per day,” he said.
The NMDPRA boss said that the
essence of the meeting was to review the downstream sector after the subsidy removal and also to thank marketers who had taken the offer to import petrol.
On petrol importation, Farouk said that over 56 companies applied for import licenses to bring in petrol, while only 10 made commitment to import.
He said that currently three marketers, namely Emadeb Energy, A.Y Shafa and Prudent Energy had imported petrol into the country.
NAN
