President Bola Tinubu has commissioned three milestone tasks, the growth of the AHL Gasoline Processing Plant, the ANOH Gasoline Processing Plant and the 23.3km ANOH-Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben (OB3) Custody Switch Metering Station Gasoline Pipeline throughout Delta and Imo states.
The hybrid commissioning was executed nearly by the president and bodily by the Minister of Petroleum (Gasoline), Ekperikpe Ekpo, and the governors of the host communities.
The president stated the commissioning was extremely vital to the nation because it demonstrated the administration’s concerted efforts to speed up the event of important fuel infrastructure geared at considerably enhancing the provision of vitality to spice up industrial progress and create employment alternatives.
President Tinubu stated: “It’s pleasing that roughly 500 MMscfd of fuel in combination could be provided to the home market from these two fuel processing crops, which represents over 25 per cent incremental progress in fuel provide.
“In sensible phrases, that is extra fuel to the facility sector, gas-based industries and different important segments of the economic system.”
He counseled the strategic imaginative and prescient of the NNPC Restricted and its companions, Sterling Oil Exploration & Vitality Manufacturing Firm Restricted (SEEPCO) and Seplat Vitality Plc, for the laudable tasks.
In his tackle, Mr Ekpo stated the president’s choice to eradicate gasoline subsidies initially of his administration had compelled elevated spending within the upstream and midstream fuel growth and using fuel as an applicable, less expensive and cleaner different to diesel and gasoline.
He stated in step with the local weather management accord, the measure solidified using fuel as “our transition gasoline as we transfer the nation in direction of attaining inexperienced vitality sufficiency by 2060.”
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NNPCL’s Group Chief Officer, Mele Kolo Kyari, in his remarks, stated: “The three infrastructure tasks will allow extra fuel processing capability and likewise enhance the provision of Liquefied Petroleum Gasoline (LPG) thereby decreasing the dependency on importation.
“Additionally, the tasks are absolutely in keeping with the federal authorities’s quest to derive worth from the nation’s fuel belongings whereas eliminating fuel flaring and shifting in direction of environmentally pleasant vitality sources.”
He famous that Nigeria was endowed with vital pure fuel assets of over 209TCF of confirmed fuel reserves with the potential to develop to over 600TCF. The Board Chairman of Seplat, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, described the tasks as a part of the seven important developments within the nation.
He stated the 4 trillion reserve within the Assa neighborhood might feed a number of fuel plant processing hubs.
He stated the undertaking supported Seplat’s imaginative and prescient of main Nigeria’s vitality transition, including that if all of the fuel from the plant went into the facility sector, it could produce sufficient electrical energy to energy 5 million Nigerians.
Temporary on the tasks
The AHL Gasoline Processing Plant 2 (AHLGPP 2) is a undertaking together with utility and storage services, connecting pipelines and truck loading services.
It’s a three way partnership between SEEPCO and NNPCL to course of moist feed fuel to supply dry lean fuel, propane and LPG for home use.
Development began in March, 2023, and was inaugurated in Might, 2024. The plant has a capability of 200 million normal cubic ft per day.
The second undertaking is the $260m ANOH Gasoline Processing Plant (ANOH GPP) within the Assa neighborhood, Ohaji-Egbema, Imo State. It’s a 300MMscfd fuel processing plant, storage and logistics facility with doable growth to 600MMscfd
The plant will course of pure fuel, produce dry fuel (energy), condensate for export and LPG for home use. The plant was accomplished in December, 2023, and it’s a partnership between Seplat Vitality and NNPCL Gasoline Infrastructure Firm (NGIC).
The third plant is the 36 x 23.3km ANOH GAS PIPELINE PROJECT-OB3 Custody Switch Metering (CTM) LINKUP. It has a present capability of 600MMscf/d (design capability: 1,200 MMscf/d)