NIPCO Receives NAEC Award for Quality Service Delivery
NIPCO Plc, a leading downstream company in Nigeria, has renewed its commitment to ensure hitch-free distribution of petroleum products across the country.
Managing Director of the Company, Mr. Venkataraman Venkatapathy, who said this at the August Conference of the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) in Lagos, Nigeria, maintained that NIPCO would continue to provide veritable avenue for more exemplary service delivery to all Nigerians.
Platformsafrica reports that NAEC members presented an award to NIPCO for its services and efforts at ensuring distribution of fuel at the regulated price across the country.
The award received by Venkatapathy on behalf of the company is in the series of recognition and awards given to the company by many groups in Nigeria over its exemplary services.
It would be recalled that NIPCO opened its flagship station on the popular Ikorodu Road, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, to improve access to fuel and non fuel services and ease suffering faced by the populace during fuel scarcity.
The station, which is the latest addition to over 150 outlets on the NIPCO’s brand, is part of the company’s giant stride to increase its service outlets across the country.
It provides veritable avenue for more exemplary service delivery to all customers patronising the outlets.
Speaking at the inauguration, Managing Director, Nipco, Mr. Venkatapathy, said that the outlet is aimed principally at meeting the needs of motorists and other petroleum products’ users.
According to him, the well branded station, which operates on a 24 hours and seven days a week, offers great solace to the populace especially against the background of the perennial fuel scarcity in the country.
He said the dispensing pumps are properly calibrated and tamper proof to guard against any unpleasant acts to the detriment of motorist with a view to ensuring continuous patronage.
Mr. Venkatapathy assured that product supply to the station would be given utmost priority stressing that it would remain wet at all times with exceptional service delivery on the minds of the attendants.
He disclosed that the state of the art station is a reflection of the company’s pedigree in the downstream sector as acclaimed by various stakeholders in the petroleum products marketing realm.
The MD noted that the location of the outlet would give room for meeting the fuel needs of a larger segment of motorists and boost the economy, aside from creating employment opportunities for the teeming job seekers in the state.
The Nipco helmsman enjoined the managers of the station to maintain high safety standards in line with international best practices, a feat that has earned the company scores of recognition over the years.
NIPCO has remained a benchmark in petroleum products storage and dispense through its ultra modern terminal on Dockyard Road, Apapa and has since embarked on parallel integration with the acquisition of hundreds of service outlets, retailing the products across the nation.
Nipco presently has over 150 outlets with the most latest being the Ikorodu station strategically located on the ever busy expressway linking the mainland to the Lagos metropolis in the erstwhile Federal Capital.
The station with a combined storage capacity of over 200,000 litres has a multi-nozzle pumps for dispensing of products, including Premium Motor Spirit [PMS], Automotive Gas Oil [AGO] and Dual Purpose kerosene [DPK].
Nipco’s new station has full fledged Lube Bay for car servicing with modern facilities such as digital air gauge, showroom for car kits, water fountain, conveniences among others- All in a bid to make it a one stop shop for auto related facilities.