A fuel station operated by Mobil near the Airport Hotel on Obaferni Awolowo Way in Ikeja, Lagos, exploded on Thursday, leading to alarm and distress among the local community.
Many have theorized that the incident must have happened from a gas filling point, even though the specifics are still unclear at the time this report was filed.
The fire, according to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, is unrelated to the compressed natural gas station that NNPC Gas Marketing Limited and NIPCO recently unveiled.
“The NNPC Ltd wishes to state that the reported explosion at a filling station in Ikeja, Lagos, has nothing to do with the recently commissioned NNPC Gas Marketing Ltd (NGML)/NIPCO Compressed Natural Gas Stations, which are currently functioning and running safely without any incident,” a statement by the NNPC spokesman, Olufemi Soneye said.
He added that the CNG station was not affected by the explosion.
“The NNPC Ltd also wishes to add that the NGML was not affected by the explosion; it is not involved in the activities of the affected station and all NGML facilities in Lagos, including pipelines, metering stations, above-ground installation and CNG facilities are in safe operating condition,” he noted.
