OpeOluwani Akintayo
Lagos — Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and the Alternate Chairman of the Board of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Timipre Sylva, alongside Group Managing Director of NNPC – Mallam Mele Kyari, will on Tuesday commission the over 200MMSCF/Day wholly-owned-and-constructed Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC’s Integrated Gas Handling Facility, IGHF and a Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG storage and dispensing plant.
According to document made available to SweetcrudeReports, commissioning of the gas dispensing plant located at Ologbo, Edo state will hold virtually.
The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company is an upstream subsidiary of the Nigerian Natiomal Petroleum Corporation.
Recall that Sylva, on Thursday 3rd Dec., 2020 at the Seventh virtual Joint International Energy Forum and International Gas Union, IEF-IGU ministerial gas forum in Malaysia, declared Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, 2030 as “The Decade of Gas Development for Nigeria”.
Sylva said Nigeria had made laudable achievements and successes in the gas space within the year under review and undeniably making 2020 “The Year of Gas” count. He however, acknowledged that Nigeria still had more work to do post 2020.
According to him, the development of Nigeria’s vast gas resources and strengthening of the gas value chain is the Federal Government’s national priority as encapsulated in the National Gas Policy of 2017.
Sylva said : “In that regard, we are pursuing programmes to grow our gas economies through the development of industrial and transport gas markets, in juxtaposition with gas-to-power initiatives.
“We believe gas will become the dominant fuel for generating power not only in Nigeria but in Africa as well.“ We have commenced the implementation of carefully conceived initiatives to foster productivity and attract investments along the gas value chain.
President Mohammadu Buhari has been invited as a special guest of honour at the commissioning.
