Africa Business Radio

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission pledged to support the Nigerian Gas Expansion programme of the federal government to improve domestic utilisation of gas for power, industrialisation in order to deepen Liquefied Petroleum Gas penetration in the country. The federal government had said that the programme was envisioned to lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty through the establishment of gas-related outlets that would serve the public when fully realised. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, explained that natural gas presents an opportunity for the nation to use gas as a catalyst for its socio-economic renaissance. The Commission’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Gbenga Komolafe, stressed that the NUPRC being a product of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 responsible for technical and commercial regulation of upstream petroleum business was fully prepared to ensure that Nigeria’s gas resources are fully harnessed.