According to the Hydrocarbon Prices Stabilization Fund (CSPH), the domestic gas filling station of Bertoua, the regional capital of East Cameroon, is 98% complete.

This infrastructure costing an amount of 5 billion CFA francs will soon boost the consumption of this energy source in this region of Cameroon, through a racking capacity of 100 metric tons.

But till this operation is totally completed, people of Bertoua will continue to use domestic gas from the stocks of the Cameroon Oil Storage Company (SCDP) of Yaoundé or Douala.

This causes a striking cost of this product in the Eastern Region (8000 CFA francs a bottle of 12 kg, against the 6500 CFA approved), as sellers are forced to add the costs of transportation to the final consumer.

The domestic gas filling center of Bertoua will be the second to be built by the CSPH, after that of Maroua, in the region of the Far North.

According to Boniface Zé, Technical Advisor to the CSPH, these investments are aimed primarily at encouraging the consumption of domestic gas in Cameroon, in order to combat desertification (by discouraging the use of firewood) in the northern part of Cameroon, and deforestation in the southern part.