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A stakeholder analysis of the automotive industry’s use of compressed natural gas in Nigeria

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posted on 2016-10-13, 14:09 authored by Femi Ogunlowo, Abigail Bristow, M. Sohail (Khan)
Nigeria experiences a perennial shortage of transportation energy despite being the world’s eighth largest producer of crude oil and the seventh largest proven reservoir of natural gas. Partly as a result, the Nigerian government proposed the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) as an automotive fuel in 1997 as part of the efforts to harness the country’s natural gas resources and address transportation energy challenges. However, the rate of adoption has been very low with natural gas vehicles constituting 0.04% of the national vehicle fleet. This paper presents a stakeholder analysis derived from interviews with senior executives of the leading organisations involved in the energy and transportation sectors in Nigeria. Analysis revealed thirty-one barriers and twenty-six policy proposals that were categorised into eight and four themes respectively. While there is a rarity of agreement across all stakeholder groups, we observed consensus on the suggestion for the removal of the subsidy on petrol and the need for the establishment of a coordinating agency to drive the use of CNG. The paper offers specific recommendations for the reform of the energy and transportation sectors, the introduction of fiscal and operational incentives and the creation of public awareness.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Transport Policy

Citation

OGUNLOWO, O.O., BRISTOW, A.L. and SOHAIL, M., 2016. A stakeholder analysis of the automotive industry’s use of compressed natural gas in Nigeria. Transport Policy, 53, pp. 58-69.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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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/

Acceptance date

2016-09-10

Publication date

2016-09-27

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Transport Policy and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.09.001.

ISSN

1879-310X

Language

  • en