据普氏能源资讯5月12日伦敦报道,尼日利亚石油部长伊曼纽尔?卡奇武库11日晚些时候表示,由于尼日利亚寻求结束长达数个月的严重燃料短缺,尼日利亚政府将放松国内进口汽油的零售价格来鼓励私人市场营销公司进口更多的汽油。
卡奇武库在国家电视台说,尼日利亚国家燃料定价监管机构石油产品定价管理局不日将宣布一个燃料市场营销人员不允许超过的每公升不高于145奈拉(0.74美元)的新的价格区间。
卡奇武库说,为了增加和稳定汽油供应,任何尼日利亚实体现在可以不受约束地进口这种产品,但进口产品必须符合监管机构颁布的现有质量规范和其他方针。
尼日利亚政府以前对汽油保持一个每公升86.50奈拉的监管价格,但是,私人市场营销人员说,这个零售价格不足以支付进口成本。
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原文如下:
Nigeria to deregulate domestic gasoline prices to woo importers
London (Platts)--12 May 2016
The Nigerian government will deregulate the domestic pump price of imported gasoline in a bid to encourage private marketing companies to import more, minister of state for petroleum Emmanuel Kachikwu said late Wednesday, as the country seeks to end months of crippling fuel shortage.
Kachikwu said on state television that the national fuel pricing regulatory body, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, would announce a new price band not above Naira 145/liter ($0.74/liter), which fuel marketers would not be permitted to exceed.
"In order to increase and stabilize the supply of the product any Nigerian entity is now free to import the product, subject to existing quality specifications and other guidelines issued by regulatory agencies," Kachikwu said.
The government previously maintained a regulated price of Naira 86.50/liter for gasoline, but private marketers said this was not enough to cover the cost of imports.