Page 6 - AfrOil Week 05 2021

AfrOil PIPELINES & TRANSPORT AfrOil

Nigeria reportedly considering rail

transport for petroleum products

NIGERIA A representative of Nigeria’s Department of Meanwhile, he commented, the country is
Petroleum Resources (DPR) said at the weekend not in a position to raise the volume of fuel trans-
that the federal government was considering ported by road. “[The] government is actually
proposals for using rail to deliver refined fuels looking at some alternatives of moving petro-
to consumers in some regions. leum products because our roads are over-bur-
According to Ebi Ogiowo, the operation dened,” he was quoted as saying by Daily Trust.
controller of DPR’s Benin field office, officials in Road tankers already carry about 80-90% of
Abuja are looking into this option because exist- Nigerian fuel shipments, he explained.
ing transportation routes are inadequate for var- Under these conditions, he said, Abuja
ious reasons. With respect to pipelines, he told sees the railways as a viable alternative. “[The]
reporters on the sidelines of the department’s government is investing heavily in rail trans-
annual meeting with fuel marketers in Delta and portation and considering it for movement of
Edo states, some of Nigeria’s existing petroleum petroleum products, and in the next two years,
product links are not even functional. Others, it will see the light of the day. And Nigeria will all
meanwhile, have been in operation for 50 years be better for it, as it will help in reducing the risk
and are showing their age, he said. of moving petroleum products across the nation
Still others are not working because they have through the roads,” he asserted.
been sabotaged or damaged, Ogiowo added. Ogiowo did not say which railways might be
Problems of this type have impaired the func- used to transport petroleum products. Nor did
tioning of some fuel storage depots in eastern he say how many tankers were available or how
and northern Nigeria, he noted. much fuel might be delivered in this fashion. ™

SNH says Chad-Cameroon pipeline

generated more revenue in 11M-2020

CAMEROON SOCIÉTÉ Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH),
the national oil company (NOC) of Cameroon,
said earlier this week that it had seen earn-
ings from crude oil shipments through the
Chad-Cameroon pipeline rise in the first 11
months of 2020.
During the January-November period, SNH
reported, Cameroon’s government collected
XAF33.48bn ($61.42mn) in transit fees for the
oil flowing through the link. This represents
a 2% rise on the same period of the previous
year, when transit fees totalled XAF32.82bn
($44.79mn), it noted.
It also stated that the volume of crude oil
exported from Cameroon via the Kome-Kribi
terminal, a floating storage and off-loading
(FSO) vessel anchored in the Gulf of Guinea The Chad-Cameroon pipeline is 1,070 km long (Image: ExxonMobil)
near the port of Kribi, had reached 44.72mn bar-
rels (about 133,493 barrels per day) in the first 11 The NOC attributed the rise in revenues and
months of last year. delivery volumes to improved upstream perfor-
This marks a 3% increase on the figure of mance. “This increase in DT [transit fees] is due
43.42mn barrels (129,604 bpd) posted in the to the increase in production of new crude oil
same period of 2019, they stated. shippers from Chad,” it said.

P6 www. NEWSBASE .com Week 05 03•February•2021