TY  - JOUR
T1  - Econometric Analysis of Domestic Transportation of Refined Petroleum Products in Nigeria
AU - , U. Kenneth Nnadi AU - , D. Cmilt 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 146
EP  - 149
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2007.146.149
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2007.146.149
KW  - Pipeline
KW  -road
KW  -waterway
KW  -refined products
AB  - The Nigerian petroleum industry was born in 1956 following the discovery of the first commercially viable oil well at Oloibiri, in today’s Bayelsa State. The country’s first refinery was founded in 1965, since which time refined products are transported domestically by road, rail, pipeline and waterway, although the rail system has been comatose since the military era that ended in 1999. The study had the objective of determining which mode-pipeline, road or waterway- is more important in domestic carriage of white products since 2000. Adopting the methodology of econometrics, data relating to total volume of products transported, in millions of cubic metres,  were  sourced  from the  pipelines  and  products  marketing  company,  along  with  the corresponding modal  distribution.  Treated  specifically  to  the  analysis  of  variance  technique,  the  results  obtained  were F* = 0.870843801 (observed) and F = 3.89 (theoretical), leading to the conclusion that all three modes are basically of equal impotance in their contributions to domestic conveyance of white products.
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