The Federal Government is on course to achieve the target of converting one million vehicles to compressed natural gas fuel.
The Commercial Operations Manager of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, PCNI, Omo Imoukhuede, who spoke to journalists on Friday during a tour of the CNG kit conversion workshops in Abuja, said more centres would be opened across the country in the coming days.
He said the first focus is on mass transit and commercial transport operators as they were key to the government’s target of reducing transportation cost.
Speaking to journalists at the NIPCO Plc CNG station, Assistant Manager, NIPCO Gas, Sunday Ayoola, said the installation of the conversion kit takes about five hours to complete.
He disclosed that the kit allows the vehicle to run with both petrol and CNG without any hitches, adding it costs about N4,000 to fill the cylinder at N200 per standard cubic meter.
Ayoola said with a full cylinder the vehicle could cover more than 150 kilometres.
He assured motorists of the safety of the CNG cylinders, adding that “in case of impact nothing happens to the storage because it is seven millimeter thick and the cylinder has been designed to withstand impact as well as to withstand temperature.
