Stakeholder consensus on the use of compressed natural gas as automotive fuel in Nigeria

Abstract

penetration of just 0.1% -that is, 6,000 NGVs out of a national fleet of more than six million vehicles (NGV Global, 2017).Natural gas is a realistic alternative to petrol and diesel (Carslaw and Fricker, 1995), presents a viable option across all road transport segments (Marbek, 2010) and becomes competitive with gasoline at the same level of infrastructural development (Nijboer, 2010). It also offers advantages for public health (Gurjar et al., 2010;Mena-Carrasco et al., 2012) and is cleaner and safer as an automotive fuel (Clean Vehicle Education Foundation [CVEF],