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Emmanuel Addeh writes on federal government’s shift to commercial and domestic use of gas, a resource that the country has in abundance
The year 2020 has witnessed a major resurgence of attention to the role that gas resources could play in the development of the Nigerian economy and as a major source of government revenue.
It’s been a year that gas has featured prominently, like never before, in conversations around developing the sector and taking the gaze away from crude oil, which is very minute compared to the massive gas resources available in the country.
Aside the NLNG Final Investment Decision (FID) on Train-7, the flag-off of the 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline, down to recent rollout of the Autogas scheme, the federal government is yet again about pushing for an increase in Nigeria’s gas utilisation quotient with the commissioning of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) 200mmscf Integrated Gas Handling Facility (IGHF) and LPG Units.
Multiple piracy attacks rock Bonny waters, threaten NLNG vessel Multiple piracy attacks rock Bonny waters, threaten NLNG vessel
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Multiple piracy attacks within the Bonny waters has left a scare on a Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) vessel, LNG Lagos II while another vessel has been boarded by an unknown number of pirates within the Bonny Island waters.
In an advisory notice issued at the weekend by Dryad Global to nearby vessels within the Bonny waters, the United Kingdom-based maritime security firm revealed that a Singapore flagged container ship, Maersk Cadiz with IMO Number 9526459 was approached and boarded by an unknown number of suspected pirates while sailing from Tema to Kiribi at 118 nautical miles South West Bonny Island.
Mon Dec 07 2020
In a move that signalled the beginning of the long-awaited gas revolution in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari last week launched the National Gas Expansion Programme and National Autogas Rollout Initiative in Abuja.
The programme has an ambitious target of enabling about 40 per cent of vehicles plying the Nigerian roads to run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
Ahead of this, the Buhari administration had earlier in the year launched the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, which will hopefully power the industries and utilities along the central and northern axis of the country.
At the launch of the programme, President Buhari stated that “it is no longer news that the vast natural gas resources, which Nigeria is endowed with have hitherto been used sub-optimally as a result of dearth of gas processing facilities and infrastructure connectivity for effective and optimal domestic utilisation’’.