KRPC To Deploy New Policies On Petroleum Products’ Consumption Pattern

The Kaduna Refining
Petrochemical Company (KRPC) says it will soon deploy new policies to guide consumption of  petroleum products.
The Managing Director of KRPC, Mr Saidu Mohammed, said this at the celebration of this year’s World Environment Day (WED) recently in Kaduna.
Mohammed expressed concern at the current consumption and production patterns of petroleum products in the country.
“Today, KRPC is set to deploy policies that will guide our consumption pattern in consonance with the 2015 WED theme.”
The Tide source reports that the theme for this year’s celebration is: “Seven Billion Dreams, One Planet, Consume with Care.“
The theme is aimed at sustainable consumption and production of petroleum products.
“If the pattern remained the same, the world would need three planets to sustain living standards and consumption,“ he said.
The Managing Director, who was represented by the Executive Director, Services (EDS), Idi Mukhtar, described the situation as alarming and suggested the need for concerted effort to change the trend.
He also called for the evaluation of consumer habits “how we shop, eat and travel to curtail wastages in the sector.
KRPC used the WED ceremony to launch three policies thrust of the company including Catering, Drug and Alcohol and, Journey Management.
He said the slogan of NNPC emphasized on touching lives of people to ensure that its activities did not affect the environment.
“It is in light of this that the NNPC in its transformation drive towards making our great corporation an international oil and gas company launched the Health , Safety and Environment Management System (HSE-MS) across the entire company.
evaluated and managed in accordance with international standards.
“I implore you all to help save our planet by evaluating the ways we consume , shop , eat, travel , generate and dispose waste.“
A lecture on the theme was presented by Dr Yahaya Saleh of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Kaduna Polytechnic.