. Board expresses delight with progress
The Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), has expressed satisfaction with the progress of work done on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project, and believe that the first Quarter 2023 target for delivering it will be met.
This was made known yesterday when the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, NNPC, Mele Kyari took the Board Members on an official tour of Segment A sites in Abaji Area Council of the FCT.
Kyari, who was accompanied by other members of his Management Team, said with activities around the AKK project, Nigeria will see over eight billion standard cubic feet (scf) of gas injected into the domestic pipeline.
This will improve power generation, facilitate industrial development, create thousands of job opportunities and deepen domestic gas utilisation.
This was contained in a statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Garba Deen Muhammad.
Kyari, who described the AKK Pipeline as “a signature project of this administration,” said it was time for Nigeria to take advantage of having the highest gas reserves in Africa.
The AKK gas project will improve power generation, facilitate industrial development, create thousands of job opportunities and deepen domestic gas utilisation.
Earlier in her remarks, the Chairman, NNPC Board, Margery Okadigbo, noted that based on the magnitude of work done at the various construction sites, the projection to have first gas by the first quarter of 2023 was realisable.
The former lawmaker said Nigeria stood the chance to leverage the current realities to provide solutions to the global gas supply challenge.
Chairman of Oilserve, the Company handling Segment A of the AKK project, Emeka Okwuosa, confirmed his company’s readiness to deliver the project on schedule.
He assured that the project managers and teams were more than competent to deliver the project within record time.
The construction of the 614km AKK Pipeline project was flagged-off simultaneously in Kogi and Kaduna states by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2020, to encourage gas utilization and serve as a springboard for the nation’s industrialization.
