Dangote’s 1,100km Gas Pipeline To Boost Power Supply

Africa’s richest man and
President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has announced plans to build a 1100-kilometer gas plant in a bid to increase the nation’s current consumption on natural gas from one billion cubic feet to three billion cubic feet.
The pipeline will go through the sea, 550km each from two lines. This is about 1100km from Bonny to Dangote Industries Free Zone, Lekki Lagos, producing about three billion cubic feet of gas.
“At the moment, the entire consumption of Nigeria is one billion cubic feet. So, we are going to triple that all at a stretch,” he said during a tour of the refinery, fertilizer and Petrochemical complex being built in Lagos.
Nigeria, the 9th largest gas reserve in the world and the 22nd biggest producer of natural gas, has been unable to meet the demand for power supply in the country. As such Dangote looks to explore  and utilize the nation’s untapped reserve of natural gas, enabling effective energy generation in addition to constant power supply.
Africa’s largest economy depends on natural gas for about 80 per cent to its power plants.
An increase from one billion cubic feet of gas to three billion cubic feet has the potential to improve Nigeria’s power generation.
In October 2015, when Abdulazeez Abdullahi, Spokesman of the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, was quizeed on the improved power supply  in his state, he noted that the improvement in electricity power supply had to do with an increase in the supply of gas to the power generation companies.
The case of an epileptic power supply in Nigeria has been traced to vandalisation of various gas pipelines.