The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has announced that it is prepared to finalize current gas projects aimed at connecting gas-to-power and gas-to-industries in order to increase the nation’s economy.

Speaking at the Senate Committee on Gas oversight visit to the NNPC Towers in Abuja, the Group General Manager, Gas Infrastructure Development (GID), Farouk Said, said NNPC is at present working on six important gas projects that the country will profit from.

Said noted that the ongoing gas infrastructure projects are in line with the Gas Master Plan granted by the last Federal Executive Council. He added that the plan will impact the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.

According to a statement by the NNPC’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ohi Alegbe, consistent with the directive of GID, the corporation is currently performing six critical gas infrastructure projects which includes four pipeline projects, the Gas Revolution Industrial Park (GRIP) and the Western and Central Processing Plants.

Alegbe stated that the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System II (ELPS) is a 36” diameter and 342 km pipeline which go across Delta, Edo, Ondo, Ogun and Lagos states. When completed, the ELPS II will boost the capacity of current ELPS which supplies 1.1 tscf/d of gas and is expected to be commissioned in Q2 of 2016, the Nations reports.

Anita Fatunji