Nigeria’s NNPC signs MoU to build biofuel plant
November 02, 2017 | Biofuels, Budget & Investment, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria | – Nigeria plans to build a 65 billion litres/year biofuel plant to boost supply of clean fuels in the country, state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), said Wednesday. NNPC signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Southwest Ondo state government to build the project, which will use cassava as a feedstock. NNPC group managing director Maikanti Baru said the ethanol produced from the plant will be blended with gasoline produced locally or imported by the NNPC to lower the sulphur content in the fuel. …