NNPC Mulls N600billion Cooking Gas Plants Upgrade

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has said it is mulling a growth plan which will require about $2bn to revamp Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, cooking gas plants.

The State-run oil firm is also making plans to build new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) plants across the country in the next five years.

The plan was revealed in a document made available to investors by the NNPC at a recent road show in China, where a memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth over $80bn to be invested in oil and gas infrastructure was signed with some Chinese companies.

CNG is gas used in place of petrol or diesel in light-to-medium-duty-trucks, buses and cars manufactured for CNG use.
CNG use was low in Nigeria, prompting the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of the NNPC, to construct a number of medium-sized public CNG refuelling stations across the country.

For the LPG plants, the NNPC, in April, invited investors to upgrade, operate and secure eight LPG butanisation (bottling) plants nationwide under a Joint Venture (JV) model.

According to the NNPC tender, the facilities for upgrade, were the Apapa LPG Plant, Ilorin, Ibadan and Enugu LPG plants.
Other plants that have been placed for repairs were the Kano LPG Plant, Gusau, Gombe and Makurdi LPG plants.