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LPG marketers boycott not targeted at Atuabo Gas – LPGMCs

The LPG Marketing Companies Association of Ghana (LPGMCs) has rejected assertions by the National Petroleum Authority that the move to cease business relations with SAGE Petroleum and Blue Ocean could pose a risk to the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant.

Vice Chairman, Gabriel Kumi insists the directive to its members was to cease doing business with the two firms at the Tema depots and not Atuabo.

SAGE Petroleum and Blue Ocean who were previously supplying LPG to local marketing companies obtained permits from the regulator, National Petroleum Authority to operate bottling plants under the Cylinder Recirculation Model and begin filling cylinders.

However, the LPGMCs consider this inimical to the survival of indigenous business, thus started a boycott of the two firms on the 12th of August 2024.

This has not gone down well with the National Petroleum Authority.