By Prospect Mejebi, in Owerri
Seplat Energy has announced the achievement of first gas from the 300Million standard cubic feet per day capacity (MMscf/d) ANOH gas project in the Eastern Niger Delta.
“Following completion of the 11kilometre Indorama gas export pipeline and receipt of regulatory approval from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), on Friday January 16 2026, ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC) commenced gas supply to Indorama, under a firm and interruptible off take Gas Sales Agreements (GSAs)”, Seplat says in a release. “To enable the flow of gas, the four upstream wells, which had been on standby since November 2025, were brought online”.
The GSA calls for up to 80MMscf/d of gas from ANOH to Indorama Petrochemical Plant, Nigeria’s second largest Petrochemicals manufacturing facility(With a total production capacity. of 360,000 Tonnes of Ethylene and 120,000Tonnes of Polyethylene per annum, it comes a distant second to Dangote’s 900,000Tonnes of Polyethylene per annum).
“Since first gas, wet gas production has been stabilizing, delivering 40-52 MMscf/d of processed gas directly from the ANOH gas plant to the Indorama Petrochemical Plant”, Seplat reports. “Condensate production has reached between 2,000 and 2,500Barrels of Oil Equivalent per day (BOEPD) and is expected to increase with gas production as the plant ramps up to design capacity”.
The original plan was to evacuate over half of ANOH gas into the Nigerian market through the ObIafu-Obrikom-Oben(OB3) pipeline, but the eastern part of the pipeline, under construction by NNPC since 2014, has remained uncompleted.
For this inability to pump Nigerian gas into the Nigerian economy on account of sheer incompetence of the National Oil Company, the ANOH Gas project operators had to look towards export.
Seplat’s statement declares: “Preparations are underway to initiate sales of processed gas to the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) with an offtake agreement structured on an interruptible basis and will support the gas plant to further scale production towards full design capacity of 300MMscf/d”.
The ANOH gas plant was developed by AGPC, an incorporated joint venture between Seplat Energy and the NGIC. The integrated plant consists of two 150 MMscf/d gas processing units, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) recovery units, condensate stabilization units, a 16MW power plant and other supporting facilities, and has been built to operate with zero routine flares.
Across the unitised field of Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) 53 and OML 21, the ANOH gas plant unlocks an estimated 4.6Trillion cubic feet (Tcf) condensate rich gas resource base. Seplat’s working interest 2P reserves in the unitised field, as booked at year end 2024, stood at 0.8Tcf. Seplat will derive value from two distinct income streams: wet gas sales from OML 53 to the ANOH gas plant, and dividends from its 50% equity ownership in AGPC.
Seplat’s release claims, without stating exact figures, that “the LPG produced from ANOH, combined with the LPG production at Sapele and the Bonny River Terminal (BRT), will make Seplat a leading supplier of clean cooking fuel to the domestic market”.
The statement adds that the ANOH gas plant will process the flared gas from the Ohaji field, enabling Seplat to achieve its onshore End of Routine Flaring programme, a key commercial and sustainability initiative for the company.
The ANOH gas plant has been developed without a single recordable Lost Time Incident (LTI) across 17.5Million-man hours, a testament to the focus of the whole team on safe and secure operations.
