The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL), has authorised major petroleum marketers to commence lifting premium motor spirit, (PMS), better known as petrol, from ?angote Petroleum Refinery under the existing agreement between it and the refinery.
The initial agreement stated that NNPCL is the sole distributor of the refinerys petrol with the first batch of the consignment put at 16.8 million liters lifted by NNPCLs retail entity.
Findings indicated that some major marketers have already lifted the product for distribution to their outlets in Lagos and other parts of the nation.
One of the marketers who pleaded anonymity, said: I can confirm that we have some major marketers already lifting from the ?angote Refinery; but it is still under the NNPCL arrangement with the refinery. In other words, we are lifting NNPCL’s product from the ?angote Refinery. It is not our product. We have no direct arrangement with the refinery.
However, it was also learnt that independent marketers have not been included in this modified arrangement.
In an interview with newsmen yesterday, the National President of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, (IPMAN), Abubakar Garima, confirmed that only NNPCL has access to ?angote fuel, adding that they discharge the bulk of the products to their retail outlets.
