Lagos — West African Gas Company (WAPCo), operator of the West African Gas Pipeline Project (WAGPP), has completed the offshore pipeline from Nigeria to Ghana, but has not received gas from Nigeria since May, 2009, owing to vandalisation of gas supply pipelines in the Niger Delta region.

Managing Director, West African Gas Pipeline Company, Mr. Jack Derickson, said this yesterday at the company's stakeholders' forum in Lagos.

Derickson, however, said WAPCo had earlier supplied gas to the Volta River Authority (VRA) station at Takoradi, under an interim sales arrangement in April.

He said the company's compressor station in Lagos, which

would enable it transport higher volume of gas from Nigeria to Ghana, Togo and Benin, was still under construction, so also were facilities that would receive the gas from offshore in Tema, Lomé and Cotonou.

He, however, said while awaiting the gas supply issue to be resolved, the remaining construction work was nearing completion at sites such as the Compressor Station in Nigeria and the Regulating and Metering stations in Tema, Lome and Cotonou, adding that the commissioning of the system would commence by the end of 2009.

"Once this phase of the construction is completed and the facilities inaugurated, WAPCo will have the compression capacity to deliver to the VRA, enough gas to power four 110 megawatt turbines, and supply our customers in Benin and Togo. Commissioning is due to be completed during the first quarter of 2010," he said.