DPR Shuts 10 Gas Plants, 40 Retail Outlets in Delta
The Department of Petroleum Resources , Warri Zonal Office has sealed 10 gas plants and 40 gas retail shops over various offences in Delta.
He said the gas shops were closed over offences bordering on operating without valid licenses, operating in an unsafe environment and decamping from bigger cylinder to smaller cylinders. “This is why we would continue to visit gas plants, retail outlets and do environmental assessment, to check the safety concerns in those places and ensure that the operators are properly trained to handle gas being a very volatile substance.
“The level of compliance has increased tremendously; we now carry out surveillance on weekly basis as against monthly because of what is happening in the country. According to reports Lagos alone consumes 6,000 cattles every day while Nigeria processes over 1.2 billion chickens annually.
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