{"id":64938,"date":"2025-04-27T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64938"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:36:43","slug":"nnpc-boosts-clean-energy-push-with-cng-facility-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/27\/nnpc-boosts-clean-energy-push-with-cng-facility-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC Boosts Clean Energy Push with CNG Facility Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NNPC Gas Marketing Limited (NGML) is set to acquire a 5.2 million standard cubic feet per day compressed natural gas (CNG) facility from Gas Network Services Limited (GNSL), according to a filing by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC).<\/p>\n<p>Located in Nigeria, the facility compresses natural gas for industrial use and fuels natural gas vehicles, reaching areas beyond pipeline coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition marks a major step in advancing the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative launched in August 2023 to drive CNG adoption following the removal of fuel subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>By expanding infrastructure, NGML aims to make CNG more accessible and affordable, particularly for transportation and commercial sectors.<\/p>\n<p>While the FCCPC acknowledged the deal\u2019s potential impact on market competition, it said consumers stand to benefit from improved access to cleaner energy alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo NNPC Gas Marketing Limited (NGML) is set to acquire a 5.2 million standard cubic feet per day compressed natural gas (CNG) facility from Gas Network Services Limited (GNSL), according to a filing by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC). Located in Nigeria, the facility compresses natural gas for industrial use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1710],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-picng","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64940,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64938\/revisions\/64940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}