Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Austin Oniwon, yesterday, assured Nigerians that the current poor power supply being experienced nationwide would soon be over.
He said the current shortage of gas supply to Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, was being addressed by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking at the Chanomi Creeks, shortly after inspecting the Warri/Escravos Gas Pipeline being handled by FENOG Nigeria Limited, Engr. Oniwon, who was represented by the Group Executive Director, Power and Gas of NNPC, Dr. David Ige, said the completion of ongoing gas pipelines would boost power supply nationwide and commended FENOG Nigeria for rising to the occasion.
He said:
“We started this site visit on Wednesday, we have visited the Escravos/Lagos Gas Pipeline system, which is a major backbone pipeline in supplying gas to most of the pipelines in the country. We are impressed with the progress we are making on the pipeline scheduled for completion four weeks from now.
With the pipeline, we would have put in place a permanent solution to the challenge of gas supply to Olorunsogo and hopefully increase generating capacity in the country.
“We are doing a significant work to make that happen. We have completed the pipeline between Oben and Geregwu.
The beauty is that we are not just addressing the power problem, we are addressing a wider gas industrialization problem.
“As you can see, this is being delivered 100 per cent by an indigenous company, FENOG and you can see the quality of the equipment that we have seen here, this is world class equipment, this is a perfect example of the kind of synergy we see between the agenda of the gas and oil sector as well as the Local Content for the empowerment of our people.”
