Nigeria: NNPC to Flow First Gas Through U.S.$662 Million East-West Gas Pipeline By 2017

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday said that it expects to start regular supply of gas to end-users within the eastern part of Nigeria through its East-West gas pipeline route early in 2017.

NNPC said at the ongoing 2015 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston Texas that it is making significant progress with the execution of the $662 million gas supply infrastructure otherwise known as Obiafu-Obrikom and Oben (OB3) gas pipeline project and that it will achieve mechanical completion of the project by December 2016 and flow the first gas through the pipeline by early 2017.

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