The duo of Ngozi Iweala and Dieziani are claiming respectively that we consume 35 million litres and 59 million litres of fuel on daily basis. Now what this means is that over one hundred thousand tankers will be lifting fuel every day with each state getting not less than 2,500 tankers on daily basis.a tanker loads a maximum of about 33 thousand litres of fuel each. This also means that as over hundred tankers are taking off from depot today another one hundred and something thousand tankers will be there now waiting to lift the one of tomrrow. It continues like that until the previous one hundred thousand tankers off loads and returns to depot. How real does this cock and bull story sound?

alexleo:

The duo of Ngozi Iweala and Dieziani are claiming respectively that we  consume 35 million litres and 59 million litres of fuel on daily basis. Now what this means is that over one hundred thousand tankers will be lifting fuel every day with each state getting not less than 2,500 tankers on daily basis.a tanker loads a maximum of about 33 thousand litres of fuel each. This also means that as over hundred tankers are taking off from depot today another one hundred and something thousand tankers will be there now waiting to lift the one of tomrrow. It continues like that until the previous one hundred thousand tankers off loads and returns to depot.  How real does this rooster and bull story sound?

you see it is very strange but I guess that is part of the fraud the said the oil cabals are commiting

according to them, they said the oil cabals can lie about the amount of barrels and liters of petrol they use during the macro transaction.

also maybe they are also adding chad, niger,camerouna and benin republic prices to it.

as u noticed urself, the figures are not consistent at all to make a direct accession of the issue. Why ?

because that is what they want , they want to confuse people

or maybe they have no record or figures

Poster. This is what i am about to do. But never getting time to computer. Thank u . U just save me from stress.

that will be 1060 trucks a day.

alexleo:

The duo of Ngozi Iweala and Dieziani are claiming respectively that we  consume 35 million litres and 59 million litres of fuel on daily basis. Now what this means is that over one hundred thousand tankers will be lifting fuel every day with each state getting not less than 2,500 tankers on daily basis.a tanker loads a maximum of about 33 thousand litres of fuel each. This also means that as over hundred tankers are taking off from depot today another one hundred and something thousand tankers will be there now waiting to lift the one of tomrrow. It continues like that until the previous one hundred thousand tankers off loads and returns to depot.  How real does this rooster and bull story sound?

Its funny isn't it? Although I think the 59million claim, incredulous as it sounds, was attributed to Mr Reginald of PPPRA:

But the Executive Secretary of Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Mr Reginald Stanley, said the country consumed 59 million litres of petrol daily indicating a differential of 24 million litres.

The NAtion


her claims were that we were already consuming more than 40m litres/ day as of 2010:

he said in 2006, daily consumption was 26. 9 million litres per day and by 2008, it has increased to 38.5 million litres. I also added that by 2010, our daily consumption was found to be 46.9 million litres. The reason that I could give those particular figures was that in general, daily consumption was usually taken as what was delivered with the exception of end of year stock, she added.

source as above

[url=http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153092:diezani-daily-petrol-consumption-is-49m-not-35m-litres&catid=1:news&Itemid=2Daily trust]Daily trust[/url] claims her figure was:

Diezani: Daily petrol consumption is 49m not 35m litres

The question is who do we now believe? Okonjo, Reginald or Allison. . .or none?? 

That Statistic is suspect considering the fact that very few filling stations in Nigeria get more than 2 Tanker(33,000 litres) supply in a week.

naija magic

this is alarming but then again the population of Nigeria is huge

won subsidies life won na ni.

hmmm that one na lie,how much own i dey buy for my motorcycle?

Hmmmmm,sounds false to me

Na lie. Two of them dey lie

@poster, most of the contemporary petroleum tankers has 45 thousand litres capacity. It has 15 ton capacity per section of d three sections on a single body.

By the time the subsidy brouhaha is done, Nigerians will find that our daily consumption would have dropped rather sharply to about 15 or 16 million litres. Please prepare to start calling me, prophet.
Those who led the demonstrations against the subsidy removal will be the loudest voices crying for the tiniest residue of subsidy to be done away with. Anybody wanna bet?

Everything in the petroleum sector is based on theft backed by voodoo math.

This claim is absolute incredulous and ludicrous.

[color=#990000][/color][size=22pt]just out of curiosity, why are we still subsidizing the 30% capacity fuel our refineries produces daily?.?

How ever this figures looks to be false and greatly over exaggerated.,. Why ant they come up with the correct figure? I mean, this is soppose to be something the head of all the petroleum cooperation should know.

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it is 1160 tankers and not 100,000 for 35million litres

check your maths again -

olodo

^^^ i was about to say the same thing. @ 35million Liters you will have approximately 1,606 trucks and 59 million liters will give you 1,788 trucks

Mumu poster. "Aunty, they gave me F9 in Matts."

icemann:

^^^ i was about to say the same thing. @ 35million Liters you will have approximately 1,606 trucks and 59 million liters will give you 1,788 trucks

My guy, are you sure?
Check ya maths again.

Beaf:

My guy, are you sure?
Check ya maths again.

35 million liters at 33k liters per truck is 1,061 Trucks approx

I need to work on my math

The the women don finish us in this country!

OP obviously miscalculated. even if we assume a tanker capacity of about 30 litres, 59million litres, the highest figure quoted so far will give about 1,966 tankers. . .about 54 per state.

Nonetheless, there are still serious question begging for answers.

with the mind-boggling revelation from CBN we had spent almost N2t (!!!) subsidizing fuel the previous year, one can only but imagine truly chilling scale of the fraud that was in the oil sector.

na water?

What this means that every Nigerian is consuming about 4 litres per day. Do these people have common sense at all. I begin to wonder what value has NOI added to the process since she became the Min of Finance and Primus inter pares of Ministers.

Governments have not really been TOTALY OPEN AND TRUE on this subsidy issue. Fine  they said  we consume 33 millin litres per day, shouldnt there have been a QUOTA system  in place?. Fine the refineries are producing certain amount per day and then companies should be given licences to import a certain amount of fuel. Hence each company given a licence has its own quota to import and government only pays for the quota allotted to them. Simple and straight forward rather than they jus importing any amount they want to .

seal777

Just like phemmy observed, constant power supply will drastically reduce consumption by more than half because generators consumed majority of the petrol brought into this country.

We claim to be fighting poverty while our system encourages burning wealth in the name of running generators.

Yes.
In any case, I'll be interested in seeing just how the various figures of petroleum consumption parse.

Lol! If you believe these moro.ns, then Nigeria consumes more petrol than India, brazil, Indonesia (all countries with bigger populations and bigger land masses than we do). In fact, if you believe the govt figures, Nigeria will be the 4th highest consumer of petrol after US, China & Japan!

And I just heard that in Ghana, they're demanding for a re-instatement of the fuel subsidy that was removed in December, so much for us copying subsidy removal from Ghana (note also that in Ghana, the increase in price was only 15% not, 100+%)

It would probably be more sensible if we had information on how much of the daily consumption is supplied from local refineries.