The Techno Oil Group has urged the Federal Government to revert its directives which placed imported Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders and other components on custom duties and Value-Added Tax payment. The company described the directive as a clear market distortion, adding that the indigenous manufacturing companies would not be able to compete with the […]
May 28, 2024Techno Oil Group has clinched the 2024 Energy Downstream Recognition Award at the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES), the latest honour for the company in its pioneering strides in Nigeria’s energy sector. The company has won a string of awards since 1998 when it opened shop in Nigeria’s crowded downstream sector. Receiving the award on […]
February 29, 2024The Group Managing Director of Techno Oil Group, Mrs. Nkechi Obi has emerged the Nigeria International Energy Summit (N.I.E.S 2023) winner of the Lifetime Achievement award for the energy sector. “I am extremely honored and humbled to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in Energy Sector. Nothing compares to the pride and joy of working so […]
April 19, 2023Dike Onwuamaeze The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has awarded ISO 9001: 2015 Certification to Techno Oil Limited for complying with best practices and international standards. ISO 9001:2015 Certification is a quality management systems award, bestowed on companies by SON for full compliance with quality standards and best practices in management. The award ceremony took […]
August 17, 2022The Lagos State Government has lauded Techno Oil Limited for building a landmark 8,400-tonne capacity LPG Coastal Terminal at Kirikiri in Apapa, Lagos. The Governor of the state, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave the commendation in Lagos in a message read on his behalf at the commissioning of the LPG terminal by the state’s Commissioner for […]
November 23, 2020Lagos: The Lagos State Govt has lauded Techno Oil Ltd. for building a landmark 8,400-ton capacity LPG Coastal Terminal at Kirikiri in Apapa, Lagos. Sanwo-Olu gave the commendation on Wednesday in Lagos in a message read on his behalf at the commissioning of the LPG Terminal by the state’s Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, […]
November 19, 2020Lagos: The Federal Government’s drive to stimulate job creation has started yielding dividends with Techno Lagos Oil Ltd. set to inaugurate an automated Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) terminal at Kirikiri in Apapa, Lagos expected to generate 2,000 jobs. The Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, is expected to unveil the facility on Nov. […]
November 12, 2020The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Monday presented its Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) Certificate to Nigeria’s pioneer cooking gas cylinder manufacturers, TechnoGas Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). The certificate was presented by Mrs Nwaoma Olujie, State Coordinator, SON, Lagos State Office 1, to Mrs Nkechi Obi, Executive Vice-Chairman of Techno Oil Ltd, at a […]
October 6, 2020Lagos: An industrialist, Mrs. Nkechi Obi, has lauded the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) for clamping down on importers bringing fake products into Nigeria, including life-endangering LPG cylinders and roofing sheets. Reacting to the recent seizure of low-quality Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders and fake roofing sheets by SON operatives in parts of the country, […]
September 3, 2020An industrialist, Mrs Nkechi Obi, says that presiding over a company that makes affordable, safe and strong cooking gas cylinders for West African markets is her greatest source of happiness, playing in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. Obi, who is the Executive Vice-Chairman of Techno Oil Ltd., a leading indigenous company made the statement […]
August 5, 2020UKAID/Department for International Development (DFID) under its Modern Energy Cooking Services -Technology Research Innovation for International Development [MECS-TRIID] in conjunction with the Centre for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme University, Ebonyi State, has partnered with Techno Oil for the Enhancement of LPG, distribution and re-circulation of Techno Oil LPG cylinders to two rural communities […]
December 24, 2019The federal government has approved the ‘Pioneer Status’ incentive for Techno Oil Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Cylinder Manufacturing Plant. The first fully indigenous automated LPG cylinder manufacturing plant of Techno Oil Limited was commissioned by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on June 7, 2019 at Kajola in Lagos State. The waiver of ‘Pioneer Status’ exempts Techno Oil […]
December 12, 2019Lagos: The Techno Oil Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinder manufacturing plant inaugurated six months has been witnessing impressive patronage from major oil and gas companies in Nigeria. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mrs Nkechi Obi, made the disclosure in Lagos today at a media parley on LPG adoption and the challenges facing the LPG sector. […]
October 31, 2019Lagos: Worried by the continued influx of fake and sub-standard Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders into Nigeria, a cooking gas advocate has warned that Nigerian homes may be risking deadly explosions, caused by using fake cylinders. The warning, follows reports that N38 million worth of cooking gas cylinders were impounded by the Nigerian Customs Service […]
August 14, 2019Ajah (Lagos State), June 7, 2019 (NAN) The Federal Government has put measures in place to ensure that up to 13.8 million households in Nigeria embraced usage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for their cooking within the next five years. Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo made the statement on Friday while inaugurating a landmark LPG cylinder […]
June 8, 2019Lagos: The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, announced on Friday that the Federal Government would collaborate with the Techno Oil Group to execute the newly introduced marketer cylinder ownership policy. Osinbajo made the announcement in Lagos while commissioning the multi-billion-naira cooking gas cylinder manufacturing plant built by Techno Oil Ltd. in Lagos. He said that government […]
June 8, 2019Lagos: Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is to commission a cooking gas manufacturing plant in Lagos on June 7– the biggest of its type in West Africa. The Chief Executive Officer of Techno Oil Group, Mrs. Nkechi Obi, told reporters in Lagos on Tuesday that the building of the plant commenced in 2015. She said that […]
June 4, 2019Lagos: The new policy drive of removing ownership of LPG cylinders from consumers will unlock the potential of Nigeria’s gas sector, the Executive-Vice Chairman of the Techno Oil Group, Mrs Nkechi Obi, has said. Reacting to the announcement by the Federal Government that ownership of cylinders by consumers would no longer be allowed, Obi said […]
May 27, 2019Nigeria’s oil and gas major, Techno Oil Ltd. has unveiled its TechnoGas LPG cylinders at the 31st World LPG Forum rounding off at Houston, Texas in the U.S. The unveiling of the cylinders formally makes Nigeria to join the big league of nations manufacturing LPG cylinders for export. No fewer than 1,500 participants drawn from […]
October 7, 2018Lagos: The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has commenced the certification phase of TechnoGas LPG cylinders, a crucial process in the anticipated roll out of cylinders from Nigeria’s flagship indigenous LPG manufacturing plant. The certification process is part of the Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) of SON, the high point of processes required for Techno […]
October 6, 2018(From right to left) Senior Adviser, Downstream & Infrastructure to the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Brenda Ataga, Executive Vice Chairman, Techno Oil, Nkechi Obi; General Manager, Gas, PPPRA, Olasupo Agbaje and Managing Director, Techno Oil, Tony Onyeama during the inter-ministerial team inspection of Techno Oil LPG Cylinder Manufacturing Plant in Lagos on Wednesday. Lagos, […]
June 14, 2018A delegation from Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority (NPA) visited the management of Techno Oil Ltd. in Lagos on Friday, to seek collaboration on Liquefied Natural Gas (LPG) and cylinder marketing in Ghana. The leader of the delegation, Mrs Sheila Abiemo, told reporters that the Ghanaian government was sourcing ideas from some countries, including Nigeria, to […]
October 27, 2017Lagos: The Women in LPG Global Network (WINLPG) is appealing to the government to take bold and proactive steps by enacting a law on safe cooking in Nigeria.
March 9, 2017Lagos, Nov. 4, 2016, Techno Oil Ltd. and CAKASA Nigeria Ltd. on Friday in Lagos signed a deal for the construction of an automated Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) terminal.
January 27, 2017The Executive Vice Chairman, Techno Oil Limited, Mrs Nkechi Obi, MON, shares her success story. Did you have a silver-spoon upbringing? My background is an average and humble one. I am from Umuahia, Abia State. My three siblings and I were all born in Lagos. My parents ensured that we spent Christmas in our hometown […]
December 16, 2016Lagos: The Nigeria Chapter of Women in LPG (WINLPG) has assured President Muhammadu Buhari that the group has set the machinery in motion to make about 40 million homes in Nigeria to embrace cooking gas before 2030. In a communique released after the inauguration of the group in Lagos, WINLPG told Buhari that the body […]
December 16, 2016Techno Oil Limited has embarked on the construction of a multi-million naira Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) cylinder manufacturing plant in Lagos, where it targets to produce 5 million units of cylinders annually. The construction of the plant valued at over N3 billion, which is expected to offer no fewer than 1,000 jobs to Nigerians […]
March 24, 2016Lagos: The Executive-Vice Chairman of Techno Oil Ltd., Mrs Nkechi Obi, disclosed today that up to 30 million Nigerian households using kerosene and firewood faced severe health hazards. She said the hazards often arise from the side effects of smokes emitting from the use of firewood and kerosene. “Nigerian women must not cook to die, […]
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