El-Rufai decides to Support NNPC on the Project $2.8 Billion Gas Pipeline Project

— Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday made his intention known to support the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, when he received the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru, at the government house in Kaduna. 

— He also mentioned that upon completion of the project, it would create several opportunities for the state, and the country at large. 

The Governor declared that his Government would join forces with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC to ensure the projected $2.8 billion Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline comes to actuality.

He also mentioned that the he is sure that the project would create investment opportunities in the state.

In a statement released on behalf of the governor by the spokesperson for NNPC, Ndu Ughamalu, he said that the people of Kaduna were delighted because the project would support the state’s “huge power ambitions”.

In his words: “Already, we have gone ahead by signing a MoU with OCIP of Morocco for the development of a fertiliser plant and as soon as the gas is here from the pipeline project, it will open up many possibilities”.

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The Governor also declared that the state would welcome the emergence of more Independent Power Plants, IPPs, and was ready to provide land to achieve that, calling on the NNPC to build more fuel retail outlets within Kaduna State, assuring that his administration would provide the much needed incentives, including land to make that a reality.

Meanwhile, Baru has said that the NNPC was keen on executing other projects that would trigger industrialisation and create jobs for the nation’s teeming population.

He noted that NNPC would support ongoing initiative by the Federal Government to diversify the nation’s economy through agriculture by providing much needed fulcrum for the attainment of a mutually beneficial relationship between agriculture and industries.

The NNPC General Manager, in a presentation entitled, consolidating the Interface between Industry and Agriculture for Nigeria’s Sustainable Development –the Role of NNPC, listed some of the achievements of the NNPC in this regard. These achievements, the GMD noted, included the provision of gas to power industries as captured in the 614km Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Pipeline (AKK) Project which process of award began in July 2017 and conceived as an integral part of the Trans Nigeria Gas Project.

He said on completion, the AKK would deliver gas to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano Power Plants to power factories in the North and the National Grid. Baru added that in order to bridge the medium term domestic gas supply deficit by 2020, seven Critical Gas Development Projects (7CGDPs) had also been identified, saying that the desired outcome of this initiative would boost domestic gas supply from about 1.5bscf/d to 5bscf/d with a corresponding 500 per cent increase in power generation to buoy capacity utilization of industries.

He stated that the 7CGDPs were at different stages of development with Assa North-Ohaji South (ANOH) project ahead of others, saying the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for facilities and pipelines for ANOH had been completed with the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the project taken in December 2018.

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