By Abel Leonard
Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi A. Sule has lauded Greenville LNG for constructing its Gas Hub station as scheduled, and for setting the pace for cost-cutting CNG and LNG Delivery in Nasarawa State.
The Executive Governor of Nasarawa Engr. A. Sule, was the Special Guest of Honor who commissioned the completed project in shabu, Lafia on Tuesday 20, August 2024.
In his address to the gathering at the Gas Station inauguration in Lafia, Governor Sule spoke of the Nasarawa Gas Masterplan and lauded Greenville LNG for successfully completing the project within its promised and planned 1-year schedule.
The Governor also commended and thanked the company for taking the lead in the visionary Nasarawa gas utilization agenda, urging the company to further spread its business operations beyond the state capital to other parts of the state. Governor Abdullahi Sule informed the audience in Lafia that in furtherance of the gasification policy of the Nasarawa State Government in order to reduce and sustainably manage energy costs in the State, his administration, as an initial investment, is sponsoring 50 youths to be trained as technicians for conversion of automotive vehicles to CNG-powered engines.
He further called on local investors within Nasarawa State to align with Greenville LNG and invest in related businesses and projects across the length and breath of the State.The Governor who did a quantification analysis between the volume of currently documented crude oil reserves and gas reserves in the country, said that with the gas reserves in Nigeria conservatively estimated at 220 trillion cubic litres, Nigeria is more of a Gas State than a Crude Oil State. Governor Sule also spoke of the great potentials of Nasarawa State as an oil and Gas State, and highlighted his dream of Nasarawa gas fields becoming gas farms which he envisions will eventually feed the gas requirements of companies such as Greenville LNG in the State in the near future.
Alhaji Zubairu Ibrahim Bayi, the Director, Inter-governmental Relations of Greenville LNG Company Limited, represented and delivered the goodwill message of the company’s Chairman Mr. Eddy Van den Broeke who, for reasons beyond his control, was unavoidably absent at the ceremony in Lafia. Alhaji Bayi, on behalf of the Chairman, Board of Directors and staff of Greenville LNG expressed sincere congratulations to the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Engr. Abdullahi A. Sule in particular, and to the State Government and people of Nasarawa State in general on the epoch-making commissioning of the L-CNG hub station in Lafia, the first of its kind in the State, and under the Governor’s very focused, innovative productive and developmentalist leadership.
“The conceptualisation, construction, completion and subsequent commissioning of this project is a clear testimony of Your Excellency’s unwavering resolve to provide and improve lasting developmental infrastructure which positively impact citizens’ lives across the length and breadth of this State and indeed the country in general,” said Bayi.
