NNPC Laments on Destruction of Rail Lines for Oil, Gas Pipe Transportation

The Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company (NNPC) has bemoaned the latest spate of assaults on the nation’s rail traces, particularly from Warri in Delta state to Itakpe in Kogi state, which the company had began utilizing for haulage of pipes.

The nationwide oil firm famous that destruction of pipelines and the rising assaults on the rail traces by some disgruntled Nigerians remained a serious problem in its oil and gasoline in addition to pipelines transportation efforts.

Talking throughout a two-day Nigeria Oil and Fuel Alternative Truthful (NOGOF) 2021, the NNPC’s Chief Working Officer, Fuel and Energy, Mr. Yusuf Usman, defined that the event was a setback for the business.

“The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) venture offers plenty of alternatives which have been given to the Engineering Procurement and Building (EPC) contractors, about 300 km every. So it is a chance for native corporations within the space of trenching and shifting elements. It prices rather a lot to maneuver 30 inches of 40km pipelines, which implies we are going to deploy over 200 vehicles.

“These truck decide nearly three pipes, so we have now to have a look at different means or have a look at the choice and the one factor we may do was to maneuver the pipes from Warri to Itakpe.
“There are plenty of challenges with this. You noticed what occurred to the rail, that instantly after we moved a few pipes, anyone went and began chopping the traces. It’s a part of the challenges,” he stated.

Usman famous that with the announcement of a “decade of gasoline,” there was the necessity to put in place a masterplan to attain the set aims within the subsequent 10 years.

He famous that this includes as an illustration, having a transparent roadmap as to what needs to be achieved within the space of shifting the molecules, institution of gas-based industries and utilisation of gasoline for transport.

He famous that the company was ensuring your complete infrastructure is in place to understand the goals of the declaration, stressing that the NNPC and its companions are presently embarking on constructing gasoline infrastructure all through the nation.

“There’s additionally the realm of gasoline hubs. Now we have taken the FID for the part 1 of the Brass venture and what we intend to do in that space is to pump one 1bcf of gasoline and the part one is simply 300mmsfd that may include two methanol crops,” he added.

Based on the highest NNPC official, part 2 of the venture would include condensate refinery, fertiliser plant, LNG plant and additional provide deep offshore and onshore alternatives.

“Within the deep offshore, we wish to do a few pipelines initiatives together with growth of labor on the 36 inch pipeline throughout offshore to the deep offshore belongings, shifting gasoline from Nigeria to Morocco of over 4,000 km of pipelines. We’re additionally trying within the route of Equatorial Guinea. All these issues require gasoline provide. The native corporations should be concerned,” he stated.

In his remarks, the Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Fuel, Mr. Ed Ubong, who can also be President, Nigeria Fuel Affiliation (NGA), said that the corporate’s initiatives current a number of alternatives in-country, stressing that every time a buyer is related to the community, they spend about N100million by way of connection work.

He said that over 120 prospects have been related to the traces , including that within the final two years , SNG has ensured that 100 per cent of contracts go to indigenous corporations.
“Hundred per cent of our contracts to this point for 2020 and 2021 go to native Nigerian corporations. There’s plenty of development work occurring in Port Harcourt, Aba and Badagry axis, the place we’re including new prospects,” he stated.