NNPC Puts Domestic Gas Usage At 1500bcf

Nigerian National Petro
leum Corporation (NNPC) has within four years helped to double domestic utilization of natural gas from 400 mcf standard to 1500bcf.
The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Engr Andrew Yakubo linked the increase in domestic use of gas to the reforms by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration which also added additional 500km of gas pipeline to the national grid.
Speaking at the University of Lagos, during his investiture as Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Engineering, the GMD said NNPC had connected gas from Southern to Northern part of the country.
Yakubu said that the full implementation of National Gas Master Plan is expected to convey gas from Oben to Geregu, enroute Kaduna to Kano and Maiduguri, among others.
He noted that Nigeria’s power sector as well as industries and other manufacturing concerns in the country have been positioned as major beneficiaries of the reforms in the gas sector.
Commenting on the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry, he said, “You have to know where we are coming from, when  Jonathan administration came on board, the refineries were not working. For two years government arrested the menace of fuel scarcity, the scourge of fuel scarcity is now past event.”
He said, we restored the refineries in a record time of four months. We started with the topping and reforming the refineries. All the refineries are working. Today, we have revamped two refineries to profitability”.
On security challenges facing pipelines used to convey fuel, he said the corporation controlled the menace on the Aba-Port Harcourt route, which has one of the highest records of pipeline breakage, remarking  that the pipeline was revamped and fixed in 2012.
Yakubu also stated that NNPC has fixed Kano, Gombe and Kaduna pipelines and that Kaduna refinery supplies maximum of one million litres of petrol to suleja depot alone, which has met the need of end users in the troubled north east geo-political zone of the country, adding that all the jobs were done by Nigerian Engineers.

Mixture of oil and gas discharging into the environment at Ikarama Oil Fields operated by Nigeria Agip Oil Company in Yenagoa Lga, Bayelsa State.