Hamisu Muhammad With Agency Report
5 November 2008
A pipeline connecting Nigeria's natural gas supplies to Ghana is ex-pected to begin operation in De-cember, a senior official with the Nigerian Gas Company has said. It is nearly a year behind sche-dule.
The $620 million West Afri-can gas pipeline, operated by US oil major, Chevron Corpora-tion is considered key in easing chronic power shortages around West Africa.
"We should complete the clean-up of the pipelines by the end of the month and begin to provide 30 million cubic feet per day (mcfd) of gas to Ghana from December," Sam Ndukwe, the pipeline's budget coordinator for the Nigerian Gas Company, said on the sidelines of an industry conference.
Also, source at NNPC told Daily Trust that the project is at conclusion part but could not ascertain the exact date for its take off.
Ndukwe estimated natural gas shipments through the pipeline will increase to 130 mcfd by December 2009.
Nigeria, with the world's seventh-largest gas reserves, will export from the Itoki terminal to the western Ghanaian port city of Takoradi. It will also provide gas to Benin and Togo.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shell Ghana's Takoradi Power Co., Societe Togolaise de Gas and Societe Beninoise de Gaz are shareholders with Chevron in the project.
The pipeline had originally been scheduled to start operating last December, but was delayed after leaks were detected in supply pipelines in Nigeria which needed cleaning and repair.
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