The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has engaged a team of technical persons to conduct risk assessment of all retail petroleum stations across Nigeria.
The team, which would go round retail outlets to check on structures and the integrity of processes deployed at the outlets, would also assess the citing, refilling, outward sale of gas and the entire value chain system at the outlets. It would also unearth lapses that exist in the organisational structure of oil marketing companies (OMCs).
The risk assessment team, according to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NPA, Mr Hassan Tampuli, is independent of the authority’s internal arrangements. The outcome of the team’s assessment, would be measured to see the long-term effect of their recommendations.
Mr Tampuli, who was speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra on the sidelines of a Petroleum Safety Campaign programme, said the industry needed such an independent assessment body to ensure that activities of retail outlets conformed to best practices.“
There are few retail stations that have safety officers and also conduct periodic fire drills. So the risk assessment would help the authority to identify the challenges and put in place mechanisms to prevent the recurrence of fire incidents,” the CEO said.
According to him, most of such incidents were as a result of the manner in which petroleum products were discharged at the retail stations.
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