{"id":76761,"date":"2025-10-16T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76761"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:38:22","slug":"dangote-deploys-cng-trucks-to-sustain-fuel-supply-amid-nnpc-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/16\/dangote-deploys-cng-trucks-to-sustain-fuel-supply-amid-nnpc-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Deploys CNG Trucks to Sustain Fuel Supply Amid NNPC Price Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has sustained nationwide petrol supply using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered trucks, even as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), raised its depot price from \u20a6850 to \u20a6900 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Industry analyst and CEO of Petroleumprice.ng, Olatide Jeremiah, confirmed that depot prices now range between \u20a6870 and \u20a6900 per litre in Lagos and Calabar, pushing retail pump prices to as high as \u20a6955 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the increase, Dangote continues to sell Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), at \u20a6850 per litre to distributors across Nigeria, a move aimed at stabilizing supply and easing market pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, private depots such as Aiteo, Pinnacle, and Matrix Energy have maintained higher rates between \u20a6870 and \u20a6900 per litre, depending on location.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah noted that the full operation of the Dangote Refinery could help drive down prices once its expansion and rehabilitation are complete.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery\u2019s use of CNG-powered trucks has reduced distribution costs and supported consistent fuel delivery nationwide, a sharp contrast to NNPC\u2019s recent price adjustment that has intensified public frustration over soaring pump prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has sustained nationwide petrol supply using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered trucks, even as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), raised its depot price from \u20a6850 to \u20a6900 per litre. Industry analyst and CEO of Petroleumprice.ng, Olatide Jeremiah, confirmed that depot prices now range between \u20a6870 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76761","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76763,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76761\/revisions\/76763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}