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Developing compressed natural gas as an automotive fuel in Nigeria: lessons from international markets

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posted on 2014-12-10, 16:16 authored by Femi Ogunlowo, Abigail Bristow, M. Sohail (Khan)
The Nigerian government proposed the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) as an automotive fuel in 1997 as part of the initiatives to harness natural gas (NG) resources but progress has been slow. This paper examines the natural gas vehicle (NGV) implementation approaches and outcomes in seven countries with diverse experiences in order to gain an understanding of the barriers to the NGV market development in Nigeria. The analysis employs hermeneutic principles to secondary data derived from academic literature, published reports from a variety of international agencies, grey literature, and text from online sources and identifies eight success factors for NGV market development namely: strategic intent, legal backing, learning and adaptation, assignment of responsibilities, financial incentives, NG pricing, consumer confidence, and NG infrastructure. The paper concludes that the principal impediment to NGV market development in Nigeria is the uncoordinated implementation approach and that greater government involvement is required in setting strategic goals, developing the legal and regulatory fra- meworks, setting of clear standards for vehicles and refuelling stations as well as assigning responsi- bilities to specific agencies. Short-term low cost policy interventions identified include widening the existing NG and gasoline price gap and offering limited support for refuelling and retrofitting facilities.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Published in

Energy Policy

Volume

76

Pages

7 - 17

Citation

OGUNLOWO, O.O., BRISTOW, A.L. and SOHAIL, M., 2015. Developing compressed natural gas as an automotive fuel in Nigeria: lessons from international markets. Energy Policy, 76, pp. 7 - 17

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© Elsevier

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

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This article is closed access.

ISSN

0301-4215

Language

  • en

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