The Federal Government is set to tackle the power challenges in Nigeria with an additional 500 million standard cubic feet of gas in the domestic market.
The government said it would also enhance industrialisation and create more jobs with more gas supply into the nation’s economy.
President Bola Tinubu disclosed this Wednesday while inaugurating three critical gas infrastructure projects executed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Seplat Energy and other partners in Ohaji-Egbema, in Imo State and Kwale, in Delta State.
The PUNCH recalls that in January 2024, Nigeria fell into nationwide blackouts due to gas shortages. The gas companies had refused to supply gas to electricity-generating companies due to unpaid debts.
Power generation that was hovering around 4,000MW dropped drastically below 2,500MW at a point, impacting the capacity of the distribution companies to supply electricity to their consumers.
As the president launched the expansion of the AHL Gas Processing Plant, the ANOH Gas Processing Plant and the 23.3km ANOH to Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben (OB3) Custody Transfer Metering Station Gas Pipeline projects, he disclosed that there would be more feedstock for the nation’s gas-fired thermal power plants.
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