Petroleum sector: SCDP counts gains, restates commitment to delivering satisfactory services.

The company has also promised to consistently boost its strides in directly impacting lives through the introduction and execution of several key social projects beyond its immediate space of operation.

The Director General of SCDP, Véronique Moampea Mbio, and her collaborators, made the commitment in Yaounde on Thursday, September 4. This was during a press lunch offered to a group of media professionals by SCDP. 

The Deputy Director General of SCDP, Gabriel Eteki Ebokolo, the company’s Director of Exploitation, Regis Charles Ondigui, and the Head of Yaounde Depots, Mohamadou Aminou, among other officials, participated in the meeting. 

The company’s officials, in the course of the gathering, briefed the pressmen on the institution’s functioning, its missions and accomplishments in the petroleum and other related sectors.

Speaking during the lunch, Véronique Moampea hailed the progress that the company has made over the years in guaranteeing the uninterrupted availability of high-quality petroleum products and its achievements in guaranteeing the company’s compliance with administrative, fiscal and customs procedures in the petroleum sector.

Véronique Moampea equally praised the company for its roles in securing supplies and collecting the special tax on petroleum products on behalf of the State.

She said the successes that the company is registering are the fruits of the efforts that the State, led by President Paul Biya, and its partners, have been putting in over the years to ensure the smooth functioning of the company. 

Restates commitment to deliver satisfactory services

Despite hailing the road that the company has covered, Véronique Moampea said the petroleum company remains focused on continuously improving its services to ensure that it continues satisfying the Cameroonian people.

She said the bid to further improve the company’s service drives the institution’s ongoing expansion and modernisation projects across several zones of operation.

Véronique Moampea notably cited the ongoing expansion project in the Bonaberi and Mboppi depots in the Littoral Region, and the project to build a new storage facility in Bélabo in the East Region with a capacity of 5,000 cubic metres.

The DG of SCDP and her collaborators stated that the various projects will further strengthen the company’s overall target of meeting the demands of users without any hitches.

Vows to boost safety projects, enhance social responsibilities 

Speaking during the Yaounde lunch, the SCDP boss and her collaborators also promised to further enhance the company’s involvement in guaranteeing the safety and the overall wellbeing of users of petroleum products and the general population.

Véronique Moampea said the company will improve sensitisation efforts notably on the safe and regulated handling of petroleum products, particularly citing the safe use of domestic gas products. 

The institution equally vowed to put in place a more robust system to manage its social operations to ensure that it carries out more impactful social projects.

The Director General said the facility is working on putting in place a health facility in Bélabo in the East Region to boost the accessibility of health services to underserved communities.

Company says open to media professionals

At the end of the event, the petroleum company declared its gratitude to media professionals for always covering the company’s activities.

Véronique Moampea told the media professionals that the company remains fully available to media professionals as it continues to explore all existing avenues to guarantee that its services meet the demands of the populations. 

The company’s officials took the media professionals through a tour across its Nsam Depot in Yaounde and detailly briefed the media actors on the institution’s facilities.

The two exercises were led by the company’s head of exploitation, Regis Charles Ondigui, and the head of the institution’s Yaounde Depots, Mohamadou Aminou, whose depots serve the Centre and South Regions and part of the East Region.

Mohamadou Aminou updated the media professionals on the functioning of the Yaounde Depots’ operational capacity and its distribution system. He equally briefed the media men and women on the investments that have been made in modernising the depots’ infrastructure.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3559 of Tuesday September 09, 2025