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The Federal Government has directed the Project Development Institute (PRODA), Enugu to explore ways of converting coal to fuel as part of measures to reduce over-reliance on petroleum products for energy.

Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Alhassan Bako Zaku, who gave the directive when he visited the institute as part of his one day facility tour of Federal Parastatals in Enugu State, said the government was uncomfortable with the underutilization of the large coal deposit in the country.

He asked the institute to do everything within its reach to carry out the directive, saying Nigeria’s over reliance on crude oil for the production of fuel in spite of the availability of other natural resources that could generate the product, was unacceptable.
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The recent pronouncement by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) at a workshop in Lagos that ethanol fuel is good and reliable for firing of automobile engines in Nigeria, may have finally laid to rest controversies over its application as fuel in the country.

Controversies had emanated after a petition by the Consumers Protection Council (CPC) was received by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) over complaints by motorists that fuel purchased from some filling stations had damaged carburettors of their cars.

The contaminated fuel was later discovered by the DPR in the storage tanks of some of the leading petroleum marketing companies, not before, which means that contamination happened onshore. In response, stakeholders have been blaming international oil traders importing petroleum products for the major marketers and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for bringing ethanol into the country.

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