By Gbanga Adedayo
The PNG Egboama Gas Processing Plant is set to reduce Nigeria’s current imports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). This assurance was given recently by the Chairman, Gas Train, Engr. Charles Osezua during the commissioning of the plant.
At the commissioning ceremony which had in attendance, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, Engr. Osezua said that the gas processing and fractionation plant, captures about 30 million standard cubic feet of Wet Gas daily from the Platform/Newcross JV flare, producing domestic grade cooking gas like mixed Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), High Grade Propane, Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) and Lean Gas.
As a result, Nigeria which imported 23.2 million metric tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, also known as cooking gas, from Argentina in December 2018, will have its imports reduced.
According to data released by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, the 23.3 million metric tonnes of LPG is part of the overall 42.09 million metric tonnes of LPG imported by the country in December 2018.
The PPPRA had disclosed that while the country imported 48.27 per cent of total LPG supplied in the country in December 2018, total LPG supplied was 87.19 million, both from domestic and foreign sources.
When the production of LPG produced from the Egbaoma Gas Processing Plant is added to supplies from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company, NLNG, from its Bonny terminal, then the country’s imports are likely to drop considerably.