The role of energy in economic development, social welfare, and environmental sustainability increases everyday with growing population and economic activities. This has led to cities all over the world planning and implementing more sustainable approaches to their energy production and use. Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, the eleventh largest producer of crude oil in the world and a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries The bulk of products consumption has been the premium motor spirit (PMS) or petrol, automotive gas oil (AGO) or diesel, dual purpose kerosene (DPK) and bitumen/asphalt. These, together, account for more than 60 percent of the total consumption of petroleum products. Generally, the demand for petroleum products has continually been on the increase.However, there have been shortages which had to be augmented with importation from time to time. The pattern of distribution of gasoline consumption indicates that the largest consumption centers are in the South-West and South-South geopolitical zones of the country.

Motor Fuels are basically fuels used for the powering of motor vehicles for both passenger and freight, public and private, equipment in industries, and this forms part of the petroleum products consumed in the FCT. The major fuels in transportation will continue to be PMS and AGO. This increase was more significant in the passenger transport, then in the industrial and freight transport sectors. There is an implication that the demand for motor fuel will continue to increase in the FCT over the projection years especially for the passenger transportation having the greater share against the freight transport and industrial sector. Petroleum products consumption in the FCT is basically for electricity generation and as fossil substitutables (DPK, LPG, Acetylene etc.). Petroleum products consumption in the FCT will increase and is expected to start declining in 2035.

Fossil fuel is still used for lighting in the household sector in the FCT. There is also the fossil substutable energy form which is energy from fossil used specifically for heating purposes in the household sector. Projected petroleum products demand in the household sector show that the demand for petroleum products in the household sector will keep increasing, as in the case of services sector, but will start declining too till 2035. Petroleum products consumption in passenger transport sub-sector in the FCT is mostly on cars and mass-transit buses. This was so because as part of the assumptions in this study, motorcycles, tri-cycles, etc. are all converted to car equivalents and included in car population. Energy consumption was only witnessed in three (3) transport modes which includes; small-trucks, big-trucks and pipelines. With the introduction of passenger trains, the energy demand for transportation in FCT will keep on increasing. This increase will be as a result of increased economic activities in the FCT, which will result also to more ton-kilometer of goods and services in the FCT.

Energy demand in industry is from four different fuels; electricity, motor fuels, non-commercial and fossil substutables. Petroluem products are used in the industry for self-generation of electricity, as motor-fuels and as fossil substitutables. With the significant increase in economic activities and industrial growth, the total energy (petroleum products) demand in the FCT will continue increasing from the base year till 2035. Most modern and developing countries’ capitals are usually dominated by services sector energy demand, showing that the economies of such cities are service sector-driven, and FCT is not an exception.