Nigerian student comes up with solution to fuel shortage

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May 25, 2016 12:06 PM

The technology component is the user-friendly mobile application ‘Petrol-Solve 1.3’, which will provide “real time monitoring of fuel volumes and for product distribution network management

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Nigerian petroleum engineer Chinedu Onyeizu has developed a policy and technology-based solution to the country’s fuel crisis.

According to Vanguard, Onyeizu, who is currently a postgraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that the strategy would require unbundling the downstream sector into 3 strategic modes namely: Downstream-Upstream node, Downstream-Midstream node, and Downstream-Downstream node.

The three-node approach, according to him, is policy-based and would require critical enablers, which include “locating new refineries at operational bases of producing companies; collaborating with International oil companies and indigenous producers to operate the refineries while NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) positions itself as a non-operating partner with oversight functions (and) provides 100 per cent funding for the construction of these refineries…”