By Godfrey AKON
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC, says its target of completing the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano, AKK, Gas Pipeline Project by first quarter of 2023 will be met.
Group Managing Director of the Company, Mallam Mele Kyari, who stated this when he took NNPC Board Members on an official tour of Segment A sites of the project in Abaji Area Council of the FCT last Thursday, expressed the company’s the company’s satisfaction with the progress of work done so far on the pipeline project.
Kyari said activities around the AKK project, will produce over eight billion standard cubic feet, scf, of gas to be injected into the domestic pipeline which will improve power generation, facilitate industrial development, create thousands of job opportunities and deepen domestic gas utilisation.
He described the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Pipeline as “a signature project of this administration,” adding that it was time for Nigeria to take advantage of having the highest gas reserves in Africa.
Earlier in her remarks, the chairman of the NNPC board, Senator Margery Okadigbo, said 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.
Okadigbo noted that the country stood the chance to leverage on the current realities to provide solutions to the global gas supply challenge.
