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Total completes gas pipeline for Alaoji power plant

By on January 29, 2015

Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited on Tuesday announced that a section of its Northern Option Pipeline that would supply gas to the National Integrated Power Plant at Alaoji in Abia State had been completed.

According to the firm, the pipeline will boost gas supply to the power plant, a development that will increase the country’s power generation capacity.

Total, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the pipeline, which stretches from Kilometre 38 at Obigbo to Kilometre 50 at Imo River, was completed on January 12, 2015 and was now ready for gas inflow to the plant at Alaoji along the Imo River in Abia State.

“This milestone will help bring to reality the Federal Government’s aspiration of improved electricity power supply in Nigeria and demonstrates Total’s commitment to meeting its promises to deliver better energy,” the firm’s managing director, Elisabeth Proust, was quoted as saying in the statement.

The NOP is a 24-inch wide, 50km long pipeline under construction by Total E&P Nigeria Limited on behalf of the NNPC/TEPNG Joint Venture.

“When completed later this year, the project will deliver 100 million cubic feet of gas per day to this strategic power plant,” the statement added.

The firm noted that in an effort to ensure early gas supply to newly built power plants, the Federal Government requested TEPNG to complete a section of the NOP from Obigbo to Imo River where the line connects to the Nigeria Gas Company facilities.

It added, “This is the point that allows gas inflow to the Alaoji power plant. This intervention for early gas required that TEPNG mobilised additional resources to fast-track the works in order to meet the deadline despite numerous changes associated with the difficult terrain.

“The gas now being supplied to the Alaoji power plant during this interim period will come from Seven Energy, while the NGC will transport the gas through their pipeline and the section of our NOPL.”

 

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