Techno Oil unveils 20 mega stations nationwide

Techno Oil Ltd has started inaugurating its 20 new mega filling stations in cities nationwide to make petroleum products readily available to consumers.

Mr Ken Abazie, the Head of Strategy/Legal Department of the company, disclosed this at a news conference to announce the unveiling of the stations in Lagos on Friday.

He said that the stations would also provide no fewer than 800 new jobs for Nigerians.

Abazie said that the new retail outlets would go a long way in supporting the renewed drive of the Federal Government to transform the economy and make jobs available to the teeming populace.

“The development has also boosted the leadership position of Techno Oil in the downstream in line with the vision of our company to set the pace,’’ he said.

Abazie said that the new mega stations were coming barely two weeks after the Federal Government commended the company for setting the pace in popularising the use of cooking gas in Nigerian homes.

“The new mega stations are strategically located across the different geo-graphical zones of Nigeria and are positioned to deliver premium value to our esteemed customers,’’ he said.

The company executive named Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu and Onitsha as some of the cities hosting the mega stations with Lagos having major share of the outlets because of its status as the nation’s economic hub.

He explained that each of the stations had capacity to dispense over 30,000 litres of petroleum products daily, using automated pumping facilities.

Abazie said that most of the stations would not only dispense white products, but would also be one-stop shops for sale of cooking gas, lubricants, LPG cylinders and stoves.

“The filling stations will not only dispense white products, but will also be one-stop shops for the distribution of all our products, including TechnoGas Stoves, the flagship stoves, manufactured by Techno Oil Ltd.’’

He said that the management of Techno Oil would continuously monitor service delivery at the mega stations with a view to making sure that no customer was short-changed in volume or value.

Abazie said that the company had deployed 50 new branded trucks to facilitate haulage of petroleum products to the new retail outlets.

He said that the trucks were fully branded “as part of our corporate strategy of backing up the Transformation Agenda of the Federal Government in the energy sector’’. (NAN)