The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd says it embarked on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline Project to ensure energy security in the country.
Its Executive Vice President, Business Services, Mr Danladi Inuwa, said this in Abuja on Thursday at a two-day Sensitisation and Awareness Workshop on the Current Status of NNPC Ltd.
The workshop was organised by the NNPC Ltd, in collaboration with Tedran Consulting, with its theme “Understanding our National Oil Company (NNPC Ltd) Post Petroleum Industry Act”
Inuwa said the workshop, was aimed at enlightening Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the general public on the activities of the corporation, in line with its mandate.
According to him, NNPC Ltd was focusing on monetising gas, and that this had given rise to some of the key projects the company had embarked upon.
“The AKK Gas Pipeline Project is going to transmit gas from Ajaokuta to Kaduna and Kano, with associated power plant going on across the country.
“The company is carrying out numerous programmes in terms of gas to power, gas to industries and of course the Petroleum product supply. “
” Part of these three key areas are being focused on, to ensure we deliver on energy security for the country, he added.
In his remarks, Mr Olalekan Edwards, the President General of a group, known as “The Natives’’ said the workshop would help in educating relevant stakeholders, to understand what NNPC. Ltd was doing.
Edwards added that it would also expose the saboteurs amongst them, as well as change the narratives, from being protesters, to being participants in their own affairs.
Also, Mr Peter Okoye, Partner, Tedran Consulting said the workshop was aimed at creating awareness on the new NNPC Ltd, its structure and operations.
“ It is good for us to have a forum where we can interact with the CSOs, to let them understand what the new NNPC Ltd is all about.
“And how these changes are going to affect the oil industry in Nigeria,’’ he said.
The Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) pipeline is a 614km-long pipeline, being developed by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to transport natural gas from southern Nigeria to central Nigeria.
The £2.2 billion ($2.8 billion) pipeline project, represents phase one of the 1,300km-long Trans-Nigerian Gas Pipeline (TNGP) project, which is being developed as part of Nigeria’s Gas Master Plan, to utilise the country’s surplus gas resources for power generation as well as for consumption by domestic customers.
The TNGP project also forms part of the proposed 4,401km-long Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) to export natural gas to customers in Europe. Nigeria holds Africa’s biggest and one of the world’s biggest gas reserves.
It’s proved natural gas reserves stand at 188 trillion cubic feet (tcf) comprising 99tcf of associated gas and 89tcf of non-associated gas.
The AKK pipeline is planned to be developed on a build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) basis, under Public-Private Partnership (PPP), supervised by Nigeria’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
