By Chineme Okafor in Abuja
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday said it has tendered and is expecting contractor financiers to take up the construction of its 650 kilometres northern gas line network which would run from Ajaokuta in Kogi State to Abuja, Kaduna and then Kano when completed.
The tender processes for the construction of the line, it said, would be concluded by the end of the second quarter (Q2) of 2017, after which preferred bids who would recoup their investments from the operations of the line ought to be announced.
The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, stated this in an interview with journalists shortly after his remarks at the 2017 edition of the annual Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum (OLEF) which was held at the auditorium of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Abuja.
The 2017 OLEF had as its topic, ‘Domestic Gas Utilisation in Nigeria: From Producers to Users,’ and the President of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA), Mr. Dada Thomas as its lead speaker.
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