Abstract

Internationally, the issue of climate change and its adversative influences on the peoples’ population together with the environment has required substantial study on the sustainable utilization of natural resources. This paper investigates the possible utilization of liquified petroleum gas as an alternative for transportation fuels in Nigeria. Natural gas is regarded as clean burning and safe fuel that can save its users money at the pump apart from the benefit can be drive from its utilization on the environment and aid in decreasing the country’s over reliance on petroleum as it is naturally occurring combination of gaseous hydrocarbon; nongaseous non hydrocarbons; gaseous non hydrocarbons obtained from underground reservoir rocks either as associated gas (with crude oil) or non-associated gas (on its own). Presently, Natural gas is considered as the efficient energy sources for the globe as well as the future due to its ecologically friendly nature when compared with the other categories of fossils fuels. Nigeria is classified as the number 7th among the major countries that are endowed with natural gas in the globe while it is number one in the continent of Africa as it possessed a natural gas deposit of about 88 trillion cubic feet. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to offer some useful insight on the predictions of liquefied gaseous use in Nigeria as an alternative to the present transportation fuels more especially in the form of liquified natural gas and liquified petroleum gas, as a plan to achieve diversification in fuel within the context of the Nigerian economy in order to reduce the present pressure on the other petroleum products and precisely Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and Automotive Gas Oil (AGO).