29 Nov NNPC increases gas supply for power generation
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said it raised domestic gas supply to the power sector by 20 million standard cubic feet per day leading to an increase in power generation by 117 megawatts in August, 2020.
In its latest financial and operations report, it supplied 727mmscfd of gas in August 2020, indicating an increase of 20mmscfd over the 707mmscfd of gas that it supplied in the preceding month of July.
Findings showed that while the 707mmscfd of gas supplied in July led to the generation of 2,421MW of electricity, the 727mmscfd gas supplied in August produced 2,538MW of power.
NNPC reported that, “A total of 707mmscfd was delivered to gas fired power plants in the month of July 2020 to generate an average power of about 2,421MW compared with June 2020 when an average of 728mmscfd was supplied to generate 2,717MW.”
It explained that for natural gas off-take, commercialisation and utilisation, out of the 233.64 billion standard cubic feet of gas supplied in August 2020, a total of 147.71BCF of gas was commercialised.
This, it said, consisted of 37.51BCF and 110.21BCF for the domestic and export market respectively.
“This translates to a total supply of 1,250.3mmscfd of gas to the domestic market and 3,506.22mmscfd of gas supplied to the export market for the month,” it said.
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