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I saw this article somewhere on the internet and I felt I should share it with you folks.


Nigeria is one of the biggest oil producing nation in the world with a very huge crude oil deposits around the entire South South, South East, and South West region of the country, both tapped and untapped. Everything about oil is money, from exploration to exportation and marketing (crude or refined product), etc.

Further to being oil producing nation, Nigeria is also one of the biggest consumer of oil products in Africa with about 40 million litres said to be consumed everyday. Why not? All the millions of cars and trucks on the Nigerian roads run on PMS or AGO (petrol or diesel) everyday.

Almost every home in Nigeria have Generator that work sometimes all day to power our homes (I’m writing this article with my laptop powered by generator right now), and most of these millions of generators used in Nigeria run on petrol and diesel.

The Factories, Businesses, Schools, Hospitals, in fact everything in Nigeria depends of power generated privately from petroleum products consuming sets. And all these oil products are dispensed almost 100% through Petrol Filling Stations. Therefore, If you can lay your hands on petrol filling station of your own, to market all these products, you’re in for money. The demands for oil related products are very high, and suppliers seems to just can’t be enough. Even the major oil marketers like Mobile, Total, Oando, Texaco, and so on are always looking for individual (would be) marketers who have the needed finance and logistics that they can sponsor in this business.

The current commodity prices for these petroleum refined products are high, and that guarantees more profits for marketers – As at now (May, 2012) the prices of petroleum products are:

Petrol – N97.00 per litre
Diesel – N150.00 per litre
Kerosene – N130.00 per litre

These means that in Nigeria where 40million liters is said to be consumed daily on Petrol alone, a total of 97.00 x 40,000,000 =  N3,880,000,000 are spent on fuel daily by Nigerians!

Now let’s assume you buy a full tanker load of fuel with maximum load capacity of 30,000 litres. When the product is completely sold which usually takes less than six days to sell (depending on where your Petrol Filling Station is and the demand at that time), the cash returns expected from one tanker of each of the petrol product sells will be:

1 Tanker of Petrol = N2,910,000

1 Tanker of Diesel = N4,500,000

1 Tanker of Kerosene = N3,900,000

The Expected Profit Return from the sale of these products = N3,200,000. This means, in a week or so, if all the products are sold, you’ll be making profit of 3million Naira!

Don’t forget that the subsidy removal is not yet over, so the prices are bound to increase further high within the coming months. If there is any time you must invest in Petrol Marketing Business, it has to be now.

Your Petrol Station need not necessarily be in the city like Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Port-Harcourt, etc. It can be located in the rural area as these areas are always neglected by the major marketers who prefer the urban areas. Having your Petrol Filling Station in the rural area is far less expensive to set up and to maintain and still guarantee sustainable profit.

In case you’re ready to hit the ground, here is a practical guide and requirements on how to go about setting up your Petroleum product marketing business either in rural or urban area. Enjoy it and drop me a feedback below in the comment box after reading!

Choose The Type of Marketing

There are two types of Petrol Marketers: Dependent Marketers and Independent Marketers. Each of them have both advantages and disadvantages. You’d need to understand these very clearly before choosing which one to go for. You can only be one at a time except you have enough investment capital to build more than one petrol station, use one for Franchise and the other for Independent Marketing.

Who is a Dependent Oil Marketer? –

You are an Dependent Marketer when you holds the Franchise of a Major oil Marketer to market under their name with your own facility fully branded by them. You’ll need to be clear on what the advantages are as that will help you make proper decisions. In my own opinion, it seems the advantages of being a Franchisee of a major marketer is more than the disadvantages

Advantages

1. You will build your business off the brand of The Major Marketer or what I called under the ‘umbrella’ of a Major Marketer.  The Major Marketers are the established brands like, TEXACO, Mobil, AP, Oando, Total, etc.

2. You will be riding on the back of your chosen Major Marketer and inherit their customer base within where your business is located, and as they keep marketing their brand, you keep making business off the popularity.

3. You wouldn’t need to assign Agent and representative to be at the depot on your company’s behalf, your Major Marketer already have that cover for you.

4. You wouldn’t have to pay for your petroleum products using bank draft, you pay directly into your Major Marketer’s account, taking away the hassles that come with it.

5. You will be having your products delivered directly to your filling station and on time by your chosen Major Marketer as they already have the logistics.

6. You will have no business with advertising, your Major Marketer overall brand advertising does that for you too. You just seat back while they do the marketing for you.

7. You will be enjoying some high level of logistic support from a well established brand and build your business off their credibility.

Disadvantages

1. You will miss out from the opportunity of building your own brand and pushing your name forward.

2. You will also miss out from gaining higher profit margin per litre of petroleum products you lift because the prices of products from The Major Marketers are higher. And the subsidy thing too will elude you.

3. Your operation will 100% dependent of your Major Marketer’s terms and conditions and policies. You will be regulated by them, including the prices, and the products you sell.

Who Is Independent Oil Marketer?

A Petrol Filling Station owner who run his business under his own name, buy products directly from NNPC and has a representative and assistant representative at the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) depot by NNPC.

Advantages

1. You run your business under your own chosen name and build your own brand and marketing logistics.

2. You lift products directly from NNPC Depots at lower prices and earn certain amount per every litre of petrol products you lift, and you can source your product anywhere you like.

3. You are free of another company’s policies and standards, you deal directly with the authorities and agencies. You do your business under your own policy and terms.

Disadvantages

1. The minimum quantity of petrol product you can buy from NNPC Depot is one tanker of 30,000 litre that cost within 2million Naira. Therefore, you must find a way to afford it.

2. You must have your own tanker that will be transporting your products or you deal with haulage company which will cost money and delay sometimes in delivering the products.

3. You are in charge of marketing your brand, therefore you have to do some forms of advertising which cost money as well.

4. Payment for petrol products to NNPC requires bank draft issued in the name of NNPC and payable to The Central Bank of Nigeria in the state you intend to lift from. You must employ someone who will be doing that.

5. Each time you lift products, you pay the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) N5,000 for insurance and Association fee.

6. Movement of petroleum products on your own from the depots to your filling stations involves many risks, accidents, fire, extortion, and cost. You’ll have to bear all that.

7. Many times. you may find it very very hard to get a supply form the NNPC, but if you’re a Major Marketer’s Franchisee, you will get supply as much as you want, at any time you want it directly from them.

With these, you can now be able to chose the type of marketer you want to be, and having decided on your choice of marketing status, the next thing is to acquire a property and build your Petrol Station.

Building Your Petrol Filling Station

1. Carryout research and feasibility study about the business structure and the location you intend to situate your business. This is very important as it will help your decision making and form part of your documentation.

Remember, you are making a huge investment, you need to carefully study your Intended Petrol Filling Station environment. After this, you proceed to get Approval to Construct.

2. Basically, your Petrol Filling Station has to be along the major road so that passing vehicles could easily have access to the facility.

3. Closeness to a busy area like motor park, round about, or market is a plus so that vehicles engaging in commercial activities in those area could easily branch and make use of your fuel station to have their tank refilled.

4. If your intended location is by the double lanes express-way, make sure the proposed land for your petrol station is close to a U-Turn or round about.

LAND –

Two plots measurement of land is the minimum property requirement to build your petrol filling station. This will be able to afford enough space for vehicles to queue and make exit turns.

Carefully negotiate price for good landed property, the prices varies from places to places and locations to locations, no specific price could be placed on that here. You will need to find that out using property Agents.

 STORAGE TANK –

After acquiring your property, do the documentation, carryout the proper land survey, and structural design. The next thing is to sink the Underground Storage Tank, these tanks varies in measurements: 30,000 litres, 35,000 litres, 40,000 litres, 45,000 litres, 60,000 litres, etc.

I recommend that you go for high volume tank, like the 45,000 and the 60,000 litres if you intend to be storing extra fuel. If you go for 30,000 litres underground tank and you intend to be lifting full tanker of 30,000 litres, then you will have to always wait until the last drop of fuel in that tank is sold before going for another turn.

CONSTRUCTION –

The petrol station construction engineer will be able to handle that effectively, I wouldn’t go on to tell you the the measurements, construction specifications, and all that (those ones are matter of choices). The Engineers should handle that, but you will need:

A Bungalow – How big or small is entirely your choice depending on the space available and what else you want to add. Do you want Restaurant, Supermarket, and Car Wash? Then, you need bigger bungalow.

Canopy over you Pumps – The shade constructed over petrol station pumps is called Canopy, it protects the pumps and the petrol attendants against the sun and the rain.

Perimeter fence – It’s regulatory requirements to fence the three sides of your petrol filling station, leaving only the entrance open for entry and exit. If you’re on a T-Junction, only two sides would be required to be fenced, the rest two would remain open for easy entry and exit from both joining roads.

Hardcore flooring – Vehicles of different sizes and capacity would be making entry into your petrol filling station when operational. Your floor must be hardcore concrete to resist the pressure from these vehicles.

Standby Generator (25kva to 35kva and above) – Do you need to be told that power supply isn’t stable in this part of the world? As far as petrol station is concerned, power supply is non stop throughout the the day, even when the business is closed for the day. Besides, standby generator is one of the requirement for approval.

3-6 Pumps (Electronic) – The pump that dispenses the fuel, you will need between 3 and 6 depending on your size and level of approval you get.

After all these have been done, next is to get your License and Approval, Click Here for the detailed procedures.

Staffing Your Petrol Filling Station

Security – This is in my number one in the list of staffs because of the high security risk in the business of having a petrol station due to the expected flow of cash. Security in this country as you and I know is a total mess. Until the cashless policy becomes fully operational and adopted by every individual, security will always be a top priority in this business.

Armed robbers prefer to attack late at night and during the weekends when they hope to meet plenty of cash. Prepare to battle them in all front, enlist the services of private security operatives and pay them well.

Make sure you wouldn’t be leaving plenty of cash within your petrol station at all times, security or no security.

Attendants – You will need 2 petrol attendants for each pump, they would be shifting between them, one person at a time. Multiple that by how many pumps you intends to have, that’s the number of attendants you need to employ.

Cashier – This person will be in charge of handling the cash and keeping records of the cash transactions. Employ an Account and use functional efficient software to keep accurate record of you cash movements.

Supervisor – His duty is to go about making sure everything is in order, both the facility and the staffs. He sees to it that everyone is up to his task and he/she reports back to the manager.

This person must be very reliable and proficient at what he does, must not be a compromising individual.

Manager – He is the superior in charge of the overall function of the petrol filling station and must be experienced with the running oil business. Every other staffs reports to him while he in turn is accountable to you. Carefully chose this person, your business can be make or marred by him. I’ve seen managers run businesses down.

With every thing stated above in place, you are 100% ready for real business!

Bros slow down....shey face don dey deyintelligent?

nerodenero:
Endowed . She has everything in front and the back doesn't look as though it lacks anything. Her face is fine and very intelligent too.

Bro ur staph is as old as dis story coz I knw u dint use condom

BabyDaddy20:
The very first day i had sex with a girl with a stinky pusssy, mehn, it smells like rotten fish.
But i do encounter stinky pusssy every now & then.

Coochie can smell.

See dem...indomie children

denedene:
igbinedion - hman, swaga man dope crooner, mascot, sopoundz, catiair, kefchild, moonwalka

Ur case is different...op is talking abt those of us that dont hate our families

RasheedUmar:
I've already said it. My dad won't know when I get married but I'll show him my children

Lol....only an engineer can dagbo a dagbo dat looks beta than d accurate

My people...my everything...my people o..my everything.....#umu nnam anam ekele o

onuwaje:
It looks like batman style from one angle
But from another angle it looks like spider man style
Or maybe superman style

naah...its delta force1 style

Hyper85:
My guy, I ve got a masters degree with distinction, but it dint give me a job until I added Certifications and experience to it. Though I started very small even with my Msc. Having an Msc is not a waste actually especially if its in engineering, I know people who have made it with M.Eng and u can even have a lucrative career in academics with a gud M.Eng. However adding Certifications can be cheaper and can yield immediate dividends but its no guarantee (I have seen guys with Nebosh and Bosiet) with no job, and I don't even have both though I will by next year, my Msc gave me an edge. [/b]In summary, God alone guarantees job not degree or certifications[b]. An Msc will come in handy in d future but u can get some certifications, and rewrite ur CV to best potray ur skills then distribute it online to recruitment firms like jobberman, joblink etc. I hope this helps

case closed

Weah96:
I don't believe it. A true story would have a detailed description of what happened to your roommate. Is he dead or alive?

he died later. I dont glory in the fact that I survived and my friend died, its just that b4 the incident I was so depressed I'd have gladly taken the bullet in place of him. After everything I thought I'd die, fell terribly ill. It was horrible, death was golden to me. Then I started studying the bible and found out God had plans for me. I cant explain why my friend had to die (he didnt die in place of me), but I can say I didnt die that day for a reason, the reason is to serve God and find spiritual meaning to my existence.

johnydon22:
This is a typical example of selfishness, barbarism, evil and greediness in belief. . . Your roommate died and you survived so God's hands were on you unfortunately God's hands were not on your roommate thats why he had to die.

I think you seriously need a psychiatric evaluation. . . it was 1 bullet on 2 targets. . .it was either you or your friend and as you said you were behind him, so who exactly was likely to be the mortal target. . .Again, you cannot think!!!

you sound empty, very empty. Am not dissing you just so you know. If I hadnt lived in the folly u r languishing in I'd have taken ur words into account. The sooner you find a meaning to ur life the better for u. I wish u peace!

krattoss:
lol..

And that ur room mate is the scape goat. He deserves to die for god to show u he exists.....

Chai.. Cant stop laughing.. Simple say u re lucky enough and not crediting it to an unknown force called god.




How about me an atheist sleeping with a snake in my room for 2days, yet it didnt bite me.? me...........

chai! Sorryyy.... u need divine peace

Op if u kill urself police go arrest u o.....am sure u dont want to end up in jail.





Seriosly check it out na, e no worth am atall. I'v been in ur shoes b4 buh ryt now am happy am alive and I really want to live out my years. Study ur bible and think man

On 28th march last year I woke to someone screaming thief! Thief! Thinking it was one of those petty thieves that Often come around to steal, my roommate sprang out to help chase d guys. I followed him (I was directly behind him), we've not gone 1pole from my room when I heard a gunshot. My roommate dropped while I ran. Cud have been me, just like that. After that incident I knew God's hands were on me. Though am not totally faithful to him but I've built a relationship with him. Thank you YAHWEH

Kabiyesi ooo

Abeg Allow me drink water keep cup- let me be

Fine boy no money

I Wonder how you Yorubas reason sef. Ur Oba just made a stupid and childish remark and all y'all Could do is turn it into a PDP-Apc thing. Is it while y 'all Were wallowing and Languishing in "Omonilerism" that Lagos was built? Is it not Out of our Sweat and Blood is Lagos what it is today? Shey you people thought we'd roll over and die after the civil war, hehehe insecurity Neva start to worry Una. Rubbish!

LordExecutioner:
Thank you bruhh for changing your mind. All ibo votes won't win at the poll for abaje, he needs yorubas. you ibos only have 17% of Lagos PVC.

and you are still an immigrant in Lagos albeit with citizenship to reside there. laying claims to it is unacceptable. go about ur business and keep making babies without disrupting the peace enjoyed by everyone.

Igbo kwenu

Religion is from the pit of hell. I follow the ways of Jesus, am not a christian

Thank you for the mentoring sir. In essence are you saying getting professional certification is better?

imag5:
Both certification and MSc is very ok, if you are financially buoyant but i tell you it not a guaranty when it comes getting a job, even if you go to Texas or France for further education, it all about building your personality, I use to tell my student that i train don't get a job instead get a career, choose and exciting field and build your personality there as am talking to you now I have taken the inspection path fully for now, asset and reliability engineering role and i want to see what the future holds for me in the next 6yrs...you can start from the basic and watch your self grow the University degree that could not gets us job after graduation ask your self what's the point going back to same uni, most professional in the industry don't have MSc, build your personality, connect with professional after school and u smile some day, sorry for the delay in replying my schedule this year has been crazy..

Good day sir, I am a 500L chemical/ petrochemical engineering student of rsust. I have interests in petroleum exploration and production but I have questions bothering me like:
1. Should I get professional certifications or should I get an M.Sc in Reservoir Engineering?
2.How viable is this venture since I dont have basic petroleum engineering Knowledge
3. I have done my Research on IPS Uniport, IFS france, Texas A/M etc...which Institution gives proper training on petroleum Engineering Courses at affordable fees?
sir your prompt reply will do me good. Thank you very much

imag5:
Best country to practise as oil and gas professional
1.Qatar.....especially when you are into drilling operations
2.naija.....all oil and gas professional
3. USA
4.Canada
How do u break in.......so many ways just go for a certificate course like mud/fluids engineering,Nebosh igc,A pi and many more u will be smiling when u pay so much sacrifice ,mean while I would have say MSC degree but it very slow unless when u go to UK top school am talking abt getting quick job fast

Good God! I have been searching for Someone like you to mentor me.I am a finalyear student studying chemical/Petrochemical engineering in Rivers state University of Science and Tech. I intend Venturing Into Reservoir engineering after first degree. please, how viable is it for a Chemical engineer to divert into reservoir engineering? Secondly, if its Viable, What preparations can l start making from now? anticipating ur reply sir.Thank you

oludunamis:
Hi All,

Good work by Dr Ferlie, Shinatu et al

I bring in subsea engr, project mgt and most recently drilling engr expericience to the forum

I can particularly assist with information for petroleum engineering education opportunities in US, Canada, UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Saudi etc, ofcourse it all depends on your current level of experience and educational background will determine which route i suggest to you

For professionals, any of you worked in south america or asia and want to share your experience?

I know little about getting jobs in nigeria, so may not be able to help much in that regards

Keep on drilling

I am a chemical engineering final year student.I'd Love to forward my academiCs in petroleum production and management without doing NYSC. please can you tell me how to go about it, and which school is Okay for my aspiration author=jpphilips post=18205662]@9ijaMan




I like the part where you said you stand to be corrected on some of this issues, learn also to appreciate a few corrections you are given.
insisting that FPSO's don't produce or bring crude to the surface is something that is not worth discussing on my time.
if you admit it does produce, then kindly edit your former post where you said it is for storage only, you never can tell who might be reading it.

you claimed it only stores and i told you that it does produce and process, haven said that, as a professional driller, there are some statements that i will gladly ignore not to spite you but as someone who understands to a great extent what you do and where your operations end, it may elude wisdom to argue production with you so i rather give up at this verge.

you may be part of the team who drilled 44 wells in OML 130 does not necessarily mean you know anything about the FPSO there, so we can skip the "i was there" part.
just to let you know, the 44 wells you drilled at OML 130 is now doing 180,000boepd with storage capacity of 2mbbls.

this is your statement in question;






we are not saying the same thing about Old Uni's, i explained a phenomenon you have noticed but you misconstrued that phenomenon believing it has something to do with employment which i still insist it doesn't.
Any industry expert, consultant, Hro, etc can go to any school and lecture, there is no industry guideline on which school to visit and what to tell them, therefore it has no bearing with the chances of those schools on employment.
A HR manager in a standard company cannot hire people from his Alma matter alone, it is a short cut to kiss his job good bye.

please, no body is engaging you in any shouting match, whatever your intents are, you owe it to your audience to put things in the right perspective.

by the way, why do you start your response with "chief"?
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I am a chemical engineering final year student.I'd Love to forward my academiCs in petroleum production and management without doing NYSC. please can you tell me how to go about it, and which school is Okay for my aspiration.

Nate7even:
Can you tell me about the work activities of a civil engineer in the field...so in love with civil engineering

badbros:
I heard serious gun shots wen writing my exam

) | was in nifes secretariat when it started. I Was supposed to be in that bank within the hour of the robbery. I no Know why God love me like this oh !!

pastorKosiso:
One of the victim...can't really tell if his alive or past on...

he died instantly. He Was a graduate of the university Who came to do his final clearance. RIP to the dead.

Serious robbery in rsust ph right now. Heavy gunshots[i][/i]
....Wish our police will swap places with this robbers
One bullion van was emptied in broad day light.

Hi. My name is promise uHegwu, final year chemical/petrochemical engineering. I have inteNtions of doing my masters abroad but the hitch is I dont know what I would do when the time comes. Someone please put me through

What if nepa no dey?

The guy myt be boring on d bed