*As NPA jetties take 161,992mt
By Teddy Nwanunobi
Nigeria imported over 263,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) between January and June 2021.
According to Hawilti’s latest Sector Watch on Nigeria’s LPG industry for the second quarter of 2021 (Q2’21), 52 per cent of the importation was delivered in Q2.
The report also stated that 81 per cent of Nigeria’s LPG in the first half (H1) of the year came from the United States.
“LPG imports increased but at a lesser pace than domestic supply, registering a QoQ (quarter-on-quarter) growth of 6.3 per cent. The United States continued to be the main exporter of LPG into Nigeria, representing almost 81 per cent of all LPG imported between January and June 2021,” it said.
Meanwhile, Lagos State has continued to be the central hub for LPG delivery and trading in Nigeria, as the Petroleum Wharf Apapa (PWA), which is owned and operated by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Apapa took the lion’s share of the LPG supplies that were delivered between January and June.
“Three of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)’s jetties at Apapa in Lagos handled a third of all LPG supplies delivered into Nigeria in the first half of 2021: the Petroleum Wharf Apapa (PWA), New Oil Jetty (NOJ) and Bulk Oil Plant (BOP). Additional jetties in Lagos handled the rest of the traffic, especially these of Lister Oil, RainOil and TechnoOil. The rest of the traffic was handled out of Delta State with the jetties of Prudent Energy and Matrix Energy,” the report read.
A total of 161,992 metric tons (MT) of LPG were delivered to the three NPA jetties in the first half of the year, the report revealed.
Valuechain reports that there are nine jetties in the country.
Under the discharged LPG at the Nigerian jetties, the PWA took a delivery of 47,119mt in Q1 and 61,997mt in Q2, making it a total of 109,116mt of LPG in H1.
Lister Jetty, which is owned and operated by Lister Oil, came behind PWA, with a delivery of 78,799mt of LPG.
The Apapa-based jetty received 41,702mt of LPG in Q1 and 37,097mt of LPG in Q2.
Third on the list is the Stockgap Jetty, which is owned and operated by Stockgap Fuels in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
It received LPG supply of 26,332mt in Q1 and 51,010mt in Q2, making it a total of 77,342mt of LPG in the first half of 2021.
A total of 62,314mt of LPG was discharged at the Matrix Jetty, which is owned and operated by the Matrix Energy in Warri, Delta State.
While it got 31,039mt in Q1, the jetty took a supply of 31,275mt of LPG in Q2.
Prudent Energy Jetty, owned and operated by Prudent Energy at Oghara in Delta State got a delivery of 44,014mt of LPG in the first half of the year, with 27,491mt received in Q1 and 16,523mt received in Q2.
RainOil Jetty, which is owned and operated by RainOil in Lagos State, received a total of 37,563mt of LPG in the first half of the year, with 17,790mt in Q1 and 19,773mt in Q2.
Bulk Oil Plant (BOP), owned and operated by the NPA in Lagos, received a total delivery of 29,841mt of LPG in the first half of the year, with 14,954mt in Q1 and 14,887mt in Q2.
TecnoOil’s TecnoGas, a Kirikiri-based jetty in Lagos, got 12,226mt in Q1 and 13,951mt in Q2, making it a total of 26,177mt of LPG for the first half of the year.
The New Oil Jetty (NOJ), another one owned and operated by the NPA in Lagos, received a total of 23,035mt of LPG in the first half of the year – 13,034mt and 10,001mt in Q2.