The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday said the daily average national gas supply to gas power plants increased to 689mmscfd or the equivalent to power generation of 3056 mw.
It’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, in a statement yesterday, said the averagae national daily gas production for the period stood at an impressive 226.918 billion cubic feet, bcf, which translates to over 7.319 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, mmscfd.
The March 2017 figure is an improvement on the previous month’s record which stood at 582 mmscfd.
The supply is also over 29 per cent higher than the corresponding supply record for March 2016.
However, pipeline sabotage in the country increased from 49 downstream pipelines vandalized points in February 2017 to 94 in March 2017.
This represents over 91 per cent increase relative to the previous months despite Federal Government’s and the NNPC’s continuous engagement with the stakeholders.