NNPC to Accelerate Ongoing Gas Projects

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has disclosed its commitment to complete six ongoing gas projects aimed at providing gas to power plants and manufacturing industries.

The corporation’s Group General Manager, Gas Infrastructure Development, Mr. Farouk Said, noted that the NNPC was undertaking six priority gas projects that would reposition the country for profitability.

He stated that the gas infrastructure projects being executed were in tandem with the Gas Master Plan, which was approved by the last Federal Executive Council, adding that the plan would have a spin off effect on the country’s Gross Domestic Product.

“In line with the mandate of the GID, we are currently executing six critical gas infrastructure projects. Four of them are pipeline projects, the others are the Gas Revolution Industrial Park and the Western and Central Processing Plants,” he said.

Said explaind that the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System II was a 36-inch diameter and 342-kilometre pipeline, which traverses Delta, Edo, Ondo, Ogun and Lagos states, stressing that the project was expected to be inaugurated in the second quarter of this year, noting that the ELPS II would double the capacity of the existing ELPS, which currently supplies 1.1 trillion standard cubic feet of gas per day.

He noted that the pipeline would serve as a backbone of power supply as most of the power plants were located along the ELPS axis.

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