The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its partners have evolved a scheme to grow gas supply for domestic consumption by 285 per cent. Mr. Baru said: "The Federal Government has directed the corporation to aggressively pursue gas development to jump start the nation's economic growth. The seven oil and gas companies earmarked for the project are: Assa North-Ohaji South Field Development, Oil Mining Lease 24 and OML 18 Joint Development. Others are: SPDC Joint Venture/Nigeria Agip Oil Company Joint Venture Unitized Gas Fields, Chevron Nigeria Limited's OML 49 Makaraba Cluster Development SPDC JV Gas Supply to Brass Fertilizer Company, among others. They are meant to fast-track the execution of the project to enable NNPC to meet the 285 per cent domestic gas supply growth projection.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 10, 2017 21:56 UTC