This is coming from the management of the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), while reacting to recent attacks on its pipeline in the Niger Delta region.
Briefing journalists after a visit to the site of the vandalism, the company said that it is poised to stop further attacks on its facilities.
The Acting Executive Director, Operation of the company, Gabriel Aggrey, said that tampering with gas pipelines reduces the gas volume that they are able to extend to customers.
“Whenever it happens, we lose about 1.5GW of electricity to the network of the national grid and a volume of about 200 million is differed.”
Apart from the huge resources used to fix pipelines when they are vandalised, Aggrey also said it degrades the nation’s generation capacity.
“The core fuel to most of our power plants is our gas. So if we cannot take gas to the power plants, generation suffers.
“The bleep we have been seeing recently in power generation and availability of power in the country has to do with this vandalism,” he said.
Pointing out solutions to the challenge, the company said that it would bring on board, host communities to be a part of those to secure the assets.
According to an official, the gas pipeline was vandalised on March 2, 2015 by unknown persons, noting that the impact of the destruction stretched as long as 56km from the point of the blast.
While gas pipeline vandalism may not be as rampant as crude oil theft, it has been said that the country loses about $600m daily to this nefarious act."
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