Nigerian Gas for Power Plants Dips in July
Nigerian state producer NNPC data shows that a total of 689mn ft3/d was delivered to the country's gas-fired power plants in the month of July 2017, representing just over three-fifths of what was sold to the domestic market.
According to the data released October 13, an average of 2,655 MW was generated from the power plants in July 2017, slightly down on the 730mn ft3/d which generated 2,969 MW in June 2017.
But July 2017 marked an improvement on the situation a year earlier, in July 2016 when 405mn ft3/d gas supplied to power plants generated 1,911 MW.
NNPC said that a total of 245.66bn ft3 was produced in July 2017, of which 58.75% (143.92bn ft3) was sold -- of which 109.34bn ft3 as exports including as LNG, and 34.58bn ft3 on the domestic market. The other 41.25% was re-injected, used as upstream fuel gas, or flared (the latter 9.14% of the total).
Latest data show joint ventures, production sharing contracts, and NNPC-owned Nigerian Petroleum Development Company accounted for 67.87%, 24.21% and 7.92% respectively of total gas production.
The report also said that the shutdown of the Trans-Niger pipeline and the production shut-in to the Qua-Iboe terminal and Bonga terminal were responsible for the dip in July 2017 oil and gas output. Last week Shell announced the lifting of a force majeure at its Bonny Light terminal.
Omono Okonkwo