SNG will build and operate the gas distribution network, which will serve customers across Oyo State for 20 years.
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Following this, SNG has engaged notable indigenous consulting firm, Philips Consulting Limited, for this project which has the potential to advance Nigeria’s energy transition agenda.
The Chief Executive of NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, said Nigeria needs accelerated gas infrastructure to deepen domestic gas distribution across Nigeria.
This, according to him, would ensure that gas is used to spur industrial development across all parts of the country.
Building on the success of Shell Nigeria Gas, Shell Energy Nigeria, aims to deliver competitive and reliable energy for power generation and industrial users and to develop gas distribution to serve people in new regions.
In the new deal with the Nigerian Gas Marketing Corporation, SNG will also extend its distribution network to Badagry to serve a new market in the border community.
A statement signed by Nathaniel Oyatogun, Chairman, NGA Electoral Committee 2020, on Tuesday said the new executive emerged after an election into the NGA Executive Council 2020-2022, which held on December 9.
The pact targets the distribution of cleaner and more reliable gas energy to industries in the state through a distribution network with potential for around 50 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, starting from the state capital, Ibadan, as the point of first entry.
Ashamu stated this in a statement by Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, in Ibadan on Sunday.
Speaking shortly after signing the MoU, Governor Seyi Makinde stated that the partnership was an indication that the policies and programmes put in place by his administration to expand the economy of the state are beginning to yield positive fruits.
The project has also enabled the supply of pipeline gas to Ariaria Market Energy Solutions Limited, Independent Power Project consortium that provides electricity to the popular Ariaria market in Abia State.
The Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Gas, Ed Ubong (left) making a presentation to the Managing Director, Nigerian Gas Marketing Company, Ahmed Muhammed Abdulkabir, during a visit by Ubong to Abdulkabir in Abuja… recently.
The Nigeria Oil and Gas Annual Conference and Exhibition is ongoing in Abuja
L-R: External Relations Manager, Shell Nigeria Gas, Tunde Olaleke; SNG’s Managing Director, Ed Ubong; President, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Mansur Ahmed; and MAN’s Director General, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, during a visit to SNG to discuss cleaner, reliable and affordable energy supply to industries and manufacturing plants in Nigeria recently.
Shell Nigeria Gas, the country’s first and wholly-owned subsidiary of an international oil company involved in domestic gas distribution in Nigeria, increased its gas distribution capacity by over 150 per cent following the safe completion of its second gas train, the Agbara-Ota Capacity Increase Project.
Shell Nigeria Gas has re-trained 30 firefighters in Abia State and donated firefighting equipment to the state fire service.
Bamidele Odugbesan, the Media Relations Manager of Shell Petroleum Development Company, said this in Lagos on Monday.
The increase in capacity will enable the company to distribute more than 100 million standard cubic feet of gas per day to businesses in its western operations.
The MoU sets out broad terms and conditions to guide co-operation between the two parties in the development of new gas distribution opportunities in the Greater Port Harcourt area and its environs in addition to its existing gas distribution network in the State.