The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited has signed an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) agreement to build a five million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscf/d) mini Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility in Kogi State.
The agreement was put in place to achieve optimal gas diffusion in the country.
Speaking at the ceremony, the GMD/CEO of NNPC Kyari, represented by Umar Ajiya, Chief Financial Officer of the NNPC, said the project was in tandem with the federal government’s desire to make gas the country’s transition fuel, available to all end-users across the country.
On his part, the Group Executive Director, Gas & Power, directorate of the NNPC, Abdulkabir Mohammed, harped on the significance of the project to the national oil company.
The EPC agreement, which ushered in the 18-months projected duration of the project’s construction phase, was among the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), a subsidiary of NNPC and Trans Gas Nigeria Limited as operator of the NGMC-Transit Unincorporated Joint Venture and Phoenix Development Limited.
With the agreement in place, the natural gas supplied through the existing Oben-Ajaokuta pipeline would be liquefied at the proposed LNG facility.
At the proposed facility, an interconnecting pipeline of fewer than 150 metres would be constructed to the facility from the adjacent NGC Geregu metering station, transported via oxygenic tanks and regasified at each customer location or cluster.
