.as DAPPMAN urges the buying public to kindly desist from panic purchases
The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) has directed its members to extend the operations of their jetties, depots and filling stations to between 18 to 24 hours daily until queues subside across the country.
MOMAN’s Chairman, Mr Olumide Adeosun, confirmed the development in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos.
Adeosun said MOMAN members were working with the regulatory authorities and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. towards a resolution of the current fuel crisis.
He said: “Most importantly, MOMAN members have committed resources towards enhanced operations and associated activities to reduce the burden of the current fuel scarcity to our customers.
“Towards this purpose, MOMAN members shall extend opening hours of jetties, depots, and filling stations to a minimum of 18 hours a day and where possible up to 24 hours a day in high density and flagship locations where the security situation permits.
“MOMAN members shall operate these extended hours until the excessive queues subside.”
He urged customers not to engage in panic buying as it might take a few days for normalcy to return, as the act also increases the pressure on the supply chain.
Adeosun noted that MOMAN subject matter experts were active contributors to the technical and commercial committees set up by the regulatory authorities.
According to him, the committees are saddled with re-stocking fuel supplies, resolving the blending of contaminated product and identifying losses suffered by customers, operators and third parties.
He said MOMAN’s committee of chemists were also working with designated laboratories to double check the quality of product (re-blended or new) before they are released into the fuels supply chain.
In a related development, Member Companies of Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) has empathised with its customers and the Nigerian teeming public on the current hardships faced in the unfortunate event of the importation of some quantities of off-spec Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as “Petrol” into the country.
This was stated in a statement made available to daily Champion and signed by Dame Winifred N. Akpani, Chairman: Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria
According to her ‘’We have worked assiduously with the regulatory authorities from the onset to curtail the further distribution of the off-spec fuel in all DAPPMAN Depots and retail outlets.
DAPPMAN also seconded versatile professionals to the Technical and Commercial Committees setup by the regulators (NMDPRA) and stakeholders who have initiated best practices ‘Standard Operating Procedures’ to ensure not only that the off-spec products are quarantined professionally processed, tested and certified good for distribution to the market, but we are also working with NNPC Ltd through its subsidiary, the PPMC LTD, to ensure that adequate stocks of ‘on-spec’ petrol are made available to Nigerians in all nooks and crannies of the nation.
DAPPMAN assures all our dear customers and the general public that all hands are on deck and DAPPMAN Depots and retail outlets have commenced, within the security and safety limits allowance, extended hours of loading from our various depots and in all our retail outlets until the situation normalises. We believe with the support and co-operation of all stakeholders, including PPMC Ltd and the regulator, NMDPRA the current challenges of petrol purchase from our various retail outlets will be over.
DAPPMAN urges the buying public to kindly desist from panic purchases as some stocks of PMS have been received by our members for distribution to our retail outlets and other registered, interested and willing retailers while much more fuel-laden vessels have continued to arrive.
