(24 Nov 2024)
NIGERIA CNG VEHICLES
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Abuja, Nigeria – 7 November 2024
1. Mid of a conversion centre worker wheeling CNG cylinder
2. Various of a CNG cylinder being processed
3. CNG cylinder being placed into the boot of a car
4. Mid of mechanic under a car running pipe
5. Various of CNG installations
6. Various of taxi driver Oche Ogenyi driving his cab
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Oche Ogenyi, taxi driver: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"When I was using fuel, on a daily basis, I buy fuel of 30,000 to 40,000 naira ($18 -$23.50 USD). And at the end of the day, when I come home, I make a profit of just 5,000 naira (£3). But with the introduction of the CNG after the conversion, I will spend just 5,000 naira buying gas. And at the end of the day, I make an interest of 30,000 naira on a daily basis. The difference is much.”
8. Oche buying gas
9. Wide of queue for gas at a filling station
10. SOUNDBITE (English), Oche Ogenyi, Taxi Driver: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"As a transporter, you know, time is money. When I was using fuel, I go to the filling station just to buy fuel and leave. But now that I am using CNG, I spend more time in the filling station to buy gas and the reason why I spend more time there is that there is no availability of filling point here.”
11. Various of a car being converted to CNG
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Yunus Idris, CNG Conversion Engineer: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"A lot of people have fear of the cylinder exploding. But that fear is a normal fear, because people are used to LPG cylinder exploding in places, you understand? So, because of that fear of an LPG cylinder exploding or they’ve heard of LPG exploding for normal cooking gas at home, so, they now think if this thing will be in their car that is a mobile, a moving object, that there will be more risk to it."
13. Yunus giving instructions to his workers
14. Cylinder being refilled at a gas station
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Yunus Idris, CNG Conversion Engineer: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"The cylinder is designed with safety in mind. The thickness of the cylinder alone is about 7.5 millimetres. That is even as much as a bulletproof or even explosion proof. So from experience and from what we’ve seen so far all over the world, it would be difficult for the cylinder to just explode. And the cylinder we are using here, the rate, the parameter they use for the design is going to be used between -40°C (-40 degrees Fahrenheit) and over 60°C (140 degrees Fahrenheit), which in Nigeria our temperatures never goes above 50 (122 Fahrenheit)."
16. Tanker arriving at CNG station
17. Car users filling up at station
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tosin Coker, Presidential CNG Initiative:
"Conversion of vehicles from petrol or diesel to gas is critical to the economy. It is absolutely critical because hitherto the government has been subsidising petrol vehicles, and we calculate that on average, about 6 or 7 million naira ($3,500 or $4,100) is spent per vehicle per year. That translates to a colossal amount of money, and it is money that the government does not have to keep spending because, in the way things have been, the government has been borrowing to make that payment. It’s just not sustainable."
19. Various of Tosin Coker working at his office desk
20. SOUNDBITE (English), Tosin Coker, Presidential CNG Initiative:
21. Close of a component being fixed in a CNG converted car
22. Various of a CNG gas station in Abuja
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Taxi driver Oche Ogenyi is one of the many benefitting from this shift.
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