The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has unveiled the service app, Petroleum Product Passport, a technology solutions app, also known as 3P, that will be deployed to monitor quality and quantity of petroleum products sold at various outlets nationwide.
During the launch at a PETROAN conference in Owerri on Saturday, the President of the association, Dr Prince Billy Harry said the idea behind 3P is to track movement and sale of petroleum products with accuracy and precision. “This will enable our network, and even the stakeholders in the industry to standardize activities in the chain across the regions and states,” the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture former president, said.
The Conference in Owerri witnessed also the inauguration of a backup, compliance team that would operate at the regional and state levels. The President explained that the team would both monitor compliance in all outlets as well as ensure that standards in terms of products quality and quantity are not short-circuited or compromised.
Highlights of the event were the delivery of two lectures titled, ‘The Importance of Quality Petroleum Products Usage in Our Society,’ and ‘The Essence of Monitoring and Compliance Team and Quality Control of Petroleum Distribution in Our Nation’.
Dr. Billy explained that the success of this app rests squarely on the retail outlets. “All retail outlets are required to retail only quality petroleum products approved and supplied by the authorities. All products by our members must be accurate as approved by authorities.
Petroan will enforce compliance by all retail outlets,” Dr Harry said, stressing that the 3P app will ensure uniform petroleum products quality and quantity. Billy Harry described PETROAN as the last mile and indeed, ‘final point of sale’ in the petroleum supply chain.
“PETROAN is the touch point with the end consumer. This makes us the most important functional point in the entire petroleum product supply chain,” he said
3P will run on PETROAN’s heavy network of over 35,000 retail outlets, and more than 15,000 licensed DPR petroleum storage facilities (fuel dumps) scattered nationwide.
The outlets, Harry stressed, will ensure optimal distribution of petroleum products all over the nation, and also ensure that all impediments confronting her members in the course of transactions are nipped at the bud to pave way for the public to enjoy seamless and equitable service delivery.
Dr. Billy pointed out that since coming on board, PETROAN has unified all marketing associations as well as outlet owners in the petroleum products,’ downstream sector in Nigeria, “and has restored hope and future to real licensed petroleum gas outlets owners by reducing excessive charges, intimidations and molestations by touts who disguise as government agencies.
