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Nigerian Gas Company

Type: Company

Name: Nigerian Gas Company

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Nigerian Gas Company

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Nigeria's power supply up 'after Delta amnesty'

LAGOS (AFP) - The absence of strife in the oil-rich Niger Delta has led to an increase in Nigeria's electricity supply because gas supplies to power plants have increased, a company spokeswoman said Thursday."Power supply is now 3,330 megawatts and we ... [Yahoo! Canada - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nigeria, Niger Delta, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian Gas Company, Warri

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)

Power generation hits 3,300 megawatts

Power generation in the country is now 3,300 megawatts after hovering around 1,800 megawatts and 2,700 megawatts for almost one year; and if everything works well the nation’s generating capacity may hit 3,500 megawatts by next week. The implication of ... [Business Day Nigeria - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nigerian Gas Company, Nitrogen, Gas Pipeline

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents

Geregu Power Plant Resumes Operation

Nigeria: JacobAbuja — The Geregu power plant in Kogi State has resumed operation following the restoration of gas supply to it.Mr Adebayo Dokunmu, the Lokoja Business District Manager of PHCN, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lokoja ... [AllAfrica.com - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Nigerian Gas Company, Nsukka (Nigeria), Nigeria, Enugu

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 1 Documents

Nigeria: Govt to Partner U.S Firm on Ibom Plant Expansion

Lagos Akwa Ibom State Government has expressed its readiness to partner the Hermes Juns Project Limited based in New Jersey, United States of America in the expansion of the Ibom Power Project.The State Governor, Chief Godswill O. Akpabio, who gave the ... [AllAfrica.com - 10/26/2009]

Entities: Nigeria, Ikot Abasi, Ken NNAMANI, Nigerian Gas Company, Uyo (Nigeria)

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

Nigeria: Inadequate Gas Threatens Electricity Supply - Expert

Port Harcourt The inadequate supply of gas to the thermal power stations in the country, representing more than 85 percent of the national electricity generation output, is capable of undermining the massive investment on generation, transmission and ... [AllAfrica.com - 10/30/2009]

Entities: Nigeria, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Port Harcourt

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Nigeria: Goodluck to Open Gas Seminar

Abuja Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and the Secretary General of the International Gas Union, Mr. Torstein Indreboe are among the confirmed dignitaries expected to attend the Special Anniversary Seminar of the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA).According ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Nigerian Gas Company, Nigeria

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

UPDATE: Nigerian Gas Co Looking To Hire, ...

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Entities: Nigerian Gas Company

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 1 Documents

UPDATE: Nigerian Gas Co Looking To Hire, Train Disarmed Rebels

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A Nigerian liquefied-petroleum-gas producer said Friday it is in talks with a disarmed militant leader to hire or train ex-rebels as local and international companies seek to consolidate the gains of a recent amnesty process.Royal ... [Morningstar.com - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Nigerian Gas Company, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Benoit Faucon, Farah Dagogo

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 1 Documents

6,000 Mw - Babalola Partners NNPC, Multi-Nationals

As part of efforts to actualise its target, the minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola has promised to partner with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and other multi- nationals for a smooth and effective execution at the end of 2009.The minister ... [Individual.com - 11/09/2009]

Entities: Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Gas Company, Nucleus

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents

Shell restates commitment to boost power supply in 2010

By Sulaimon SalauIN line with the Federal Government's Independent Power Plant (IPP) agenda, Shell Petroleum Development Company has said that it would supply about 650 mega watts (mw) to the national grid by the first quarter of next year.This feat, ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Nigerian Gas Company, Petroleum Development Corporation, Rivers State, Emission

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents

Stakeholders task govt on gas master plan

PIQUED by Federal Government's move to reform the nation's oil and gas industry, stakeholders in the gas sector have urged government to ensure the speedy implementation of the gas master plan, as it would enhance greater contributions to the socio-economic ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Charles Osezua, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Gas Company, Odein Ajumogobia, Mohammed Barkindo

First Reported 08/09/2009 - Updated 08/09/2009 - 1 Documents

Nigerian gunmen blow up gas pipeline in Delta State

LAGOS, Aug.9 (Xinhua) -- A gas pipeline in Utorogun oil fields in southeast Nigeria's Delta State was blown up by unidentified people on Saturday, according to the report of the Lagos- based Daily Independent newspaper on Sunday.This was the first time ... [Xinhua News Agency - 08/09/2009]

Entities: Gas Pipeline, Lagos (Nigeria), Nigerian Gas Company, Compressed gas, Joint Task Force

Quotes

The Nigerian Gas Association president, Engr. Charles Osezua said: "The 10th Anniversary events of the Nigerian Gas Association provides a unique opportunity for all stakeholders in the Nigerian gas industry to take stock of the great developments that have taken place in the last decade, while noting the actions required to move the Nigerian gas industry to the heights desired for it by all." Copyright © 2009 Daily Trust

Nigeria: Goodluck to Open Gas Seminar [AllAfrica.com - 11/04/2009]

"The only constraint we have now is gas because all the transmission stations have been strengthened. I can tell you that the transmission system is robust enough to evacuate 6,000mw, if they give us gas. Anyway, the NNPC and the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) are saying that they are working assiduously to give us gas before the end of the year" she said

The December Mirage and The Gas Power Disconnect [Nigeria Guardian - 11/01/2009]

...35 Bcf. by the year 2030. "Also, France has available working capacity of 406.36Bcf, Germany 685 Bcf. and U K 155.47 Bcf. Equally, the United State of America possesses 139Bcf. with capacity of 8.644 Bcf/d deliveries. 'If these nations can have so much in preparation for any unforeseen occurrences, why can't we start from somewhere in securing our future gas supply needs. 'Within our proliferating, politicised and weak institutions and regulatory environment, it is not out of place to experience insecurity in supply of natural gas in the country, coupled with unbalanced and non-reflection of experts and stakeholders' opinions on various decision-making structures in the country. 'We stand to experience long term negative effect, especially as the country is opting for separate regulatory entities within the same sector. Except the government collapses the existing regulatory functions into a single regulatory organ shall we have solution, 'This is similar to the American and Spanish practices where power generation and hydrocarbon industries are regulated by a single entity, that is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the Americans and the National Energy Commission for the Spanish,' he said. The economists said the precarious situation would have been averted and should not have degenerated to this extent had the bill to unbundle the Nigerian Gas Company, subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, been given adequate attention since its introduction in 2006. 'Right now, international oil companies extracting gas, NGC and NNPC are answerable to the Minister of Energy, then what miracle do we expect of the Minister of Power to perform, when there exists virtually no coordinating structure on ground among the two ministries? And it must be understood that gas and power cannot be separated,' he said. Copyright © 2009 Vanguard."

Nigeria: Inadequate Gas Threatens Electricity Supply - Expert [AllAfrica.com - 10/30/2009]

...levels nationwide after the repair of a sabotaged gas supply pipeline in the Niger Delta that feeds several power plants, officials said Tuesday. "We are back at around 2,400 megawatts following the resumption of gas supply to Egbin power station by the Nigerian Gas Company" a spokeswoman for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Efuru Igbo, told AFP

Nigeria's power output restored after sabotage: officials [The Middle East - 08/25/2009]

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Drumbeat: August 15, 2009 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 08/15/2009] Consumer inflation tumbles to zero WASHINGTON — Consumer prices have fallen more in the past year than in any 12-month period in nearly six decades — a huge break ...
Pipeline supplying Nigerian Gas Co. blown up [Asian Energy - 05/17/2009] LONDON (MarketWatch) -- A pipeline supplying the Nigerian Gas Company in Niger Delta's Abiteye community was blown up Saturday, the Nigerian army said in an e-mail ...

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