THE NIGERIAN GAS COMPANY, subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has resumed optional supply of gas to the Egbin Thermal Station Lagos and other installations of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). This development rekindles the hope of improved performance by PHCN, which had blamed its lackluster performance en inadequate supply gas by NGC to rum its installations.
Gas supply to other industrial consumers nationwide has also been restored. The development follows the successful repair of the Escravos Warri Trunkline, which conveys gas from the various fields of the U.S oil major Chevron, in Escravos, by a Nigerian indigenous oil servicing contractor, De’Wayles International Limited.
De’Wayles completed the job, two years after the line was vandalized by Niger Delta militants in Chanomi Creeks, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The pipeline, measuring 58 kilometres from Escravos to NGC, was ruptured in February 2006. It supplied 180 million standard cubic feet of gas per day to PHCN and other establishments before it was ruptured in 30 locations by the warlords. Gas was introduced into the flow line after it was certified suitable for operations by a team of engineers from NGC and De’Wavles. The oil servicing company also repaired the Odidi Central Node, which filters gas from the fields. Consequently, the pipeline had successfully conveyed gas to NGC’s Gas Treatment Plant, Ekpan, from where it was being channeled to PHCN and other customers of the NNPC subsidiary. These, Victor Egukawore. Chairman and CEO of DeWayle and Patrick Okoro, Head, Engineering and Contracts report that the gas pressure at the gas treatment plant in NGC is up to 85 bars and that the NGC has started supply of gas beyond the Warri treatment plant. “The outcome of the pressure test indicated that the integrity of the pipeline is strong. Regular supply of gas through the pipeline had resumed.”
