The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC says it has taken steps aimed at attaining sufficiency in domestic gas supply with the execution of Final Investment Decision on the development of the four point three trillion cubic feet Assa North and Ohaji South Fields between the corporation and its Joint Venture partners.
The partners are, Shell Petroleum Development Company, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria and Nigeria Agip Oil Company.
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, who disclosed this in Abuja said that the project, when fully developed, will add about six hundred million standard cubic feet of gas per day to the national gas grid with capacity to expand to one point two billion cubic feet per day.
He said that another one hundred and ninety-seven million stock barrel of Condensate will also be realized.
Mr. Ughammadu, described the project as a critical gas supply hub in Nigeria’s burgeoning gas-infrastructure network designed to provide the linkage between the Eastern, Western and Northern gas pipeline system.
He said the successful completion of the multi-faceted project which is an integral part of the seven-Critical Gas Development Projects, will be dependent on a number of critical success factors and enablers which include synergy and team work between the Nigerian National petroleum Commission and all the key stakeholders.
He also said the corporation and its Joint Venture partners have worked on all the issues and have developed a sustainable strategy to develop the considerable gas resources in Assa North-Ohaji South Fields.
Mr. Ughamadu, said NNPC will continue to leverage on available expertise and capital from its global outreach to accelerate and deliver on first gas from the project between the last quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020.
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