By Victoria Onehi
The Mobil fuel station located near the Airport Hotel on Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos exploded on Thursday, causing panic among residents.
Though many have speculated that it must have occurred from a gas filling point,however, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said the inferno has nothing to do with the compressed natural gas station recently unveiled by the NNPC Gas Marketing Limited and NIPCO.
A statement by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer NNPC Ltd,Olufemi Soneye, disclosed that the explosion has nothing to do with the recently commissioned NNPC Gas Marketing Ltd.
The statement reads in part:
“The NNPC Ltd wishes to state that the reported explosion at a filling station in Ikeja, Lagos, has nothing to do with the recently commissioned NNPC Gas Marketing Ltd (NGML)/NIPCO Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Stations, which are currently functioning and running safely without any incident.”
“The NNPC Ltd also wishes to add that the NGML was not affected by the explosion; it is not involved in the activities of the affected station and all NGML facilities in Lagos, including pipelines, metering stations, above-ground installation and CNG facilities are in safe operating condition.”
