Adedayo Osho
Latest assurance by Mele Kyari, the Group CEO of Nigeria’s national oil company, NNPC, set the completion date for the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben, otherwise known as OB3 Gas Pipeline project till August 2024.
The OB3 Gas Pipeline connects the Eastern gas pipeline network with the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System in the West of the country Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Pipeline in the North.
Kyari said “By the middle of August, we will complete this project as assured by the project team.” He added that “Once completed, we will see about 2.2 billion standard cubic feet of gas coming into our network.”
The pipeline runs from the Obiafu-Obrikom gas plant near Omoku, Rivers State, to Oben in Edo State.
The project, initially slated for completion by the end of 2017, was delayed due to technical challenges, including horizontal drilling under major rivers.
In February 2024, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), while speaking at the official opening of the 7th edition of the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES 2024) in Abuja earlier promised the completion of the OB3 gas project for March 2024.