With an estimated four million gas cylinders in use and possibility of gas explosions with attendant loss of lives and property, the gas leak detection device is a most welcome development in homes across the country.

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, will tomorrow open Amal Technology’s production facility in Abuja. The facility will produce amal aerio, a gas leak detection device and Printed Circuit Boards.

The homegrown innovation was initiated by Amal Technologies Limited and supported by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) under its Research and Development innovation intervention, which has a Technology Incubation and Innovation Centre (TIIC) domiciled within the Nigerian Content Tower in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

Under the NCDMB’s Research and Development Framework, it facilitates ideas to market and provides institutional and funding support for market-driven research. It also supports the commercialisation of breakthrough innovations with high market prospects.

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The commissioning ceremony will be performed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, supported by the Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe. Other dignitaries expected at the event include the Minister of Solid Minerals, the Minister of State Steel Development, the Minister of Science and Technology, the Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the Director General, Energy Commission and members of the National Assembly.

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Amal Aerio is a gas and smoke detection device that sends alerts to phones in the event of a gas leakage, thus preventing potential fire disasters. The facility also has the capability for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing.

With NCDMB’s support to Amal Technologies, the company’s products are guaranteed to be made available to Nigerians as well as exported. In a statement released by the local content agency, it stated that NCDMB is deepening in-country capacity for research and development by leveraging Nigeria’s oil and gas resources to catalyse its industrialisation.

This innovation, it stated, complements the Federal Government’s decade of gas policy and in particular, the drive to deepen the utilisation of cooking gas in homes across the country.

Ayodele Johnson

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