Targets over 2000 customers
Gaslink Nigeria Limited, developer of Nigeria’s foremost natural gas distribution network and a subsidiary of Oando PLC, announced that it has connected the facilities of Chi Limited to its gas pipeline grid. Chi Limited, reputed for the Chivita brand, will use the supplied natural gas in its processing facilities and as fuel for the 14.5 megawatts power generating platform, soon to go live. This connection makes Chi the milestone 100th customer now connected to the gas network in Lagos.
Natural gas provides Chi Limited and other local industries a cost reduction opportunity for their energy spend whilst running on fuel that is globally renowned for its cleanliness, safety and environmental friendliness when compared with other fossil fuels.
Commenting, Mr. Bolaji Osunsanya, Managing Director, Gaslink Nigeria Limited, states: �This connection reinforces the confidence that Nigerian corporates have in our ability to provide safer, cleaner, and more affordable fuel that continues to enable sustenance in their profitability and global competitiveness. It encourages us to relentlessly pursue our aspiration to provide gas to all industries in the zone. The target is to have 2000 customers enjoy the gas advantage’.
Based on the increasing demand for natural gas, we are committed to expanding our pipeline infrastructure for the benefit of companies in our franchise area. Today, companies within the industrial zones of Ikeja, Ilupeju, Apapa, Iganmu, Matori, Isolo and Tin Can Island are assured of natural gas supply. We are also actively seeking to replicate this success in other franchise areas across the nation,’ he adds.
The Gaslink 100km grid which now delivers 38 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) completed its recent expansion project to Apapa and Tin Can in 2008. In 2001, the company embarked on a phased urban pipeline network development drive that began with the construction of an 11.2 kilometre pipeline network, with a capacity to deliver 15mmscf/d, from the Nigerian Gas Company’s City Gate at Ikeja through Oba Akran, Lateef Jakande and Acme Roads; all within the Ikeja industrial scheme.
Following the successful completion of the first phase of its development, the company commissioned its Ikeja 1B gas line with capacity to deliver an additional 5mmscf/d to companies within Oregun through Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja. By 2004, Gaslink’s pipeline network was further expanded by an 84 kilometre distribution line designed to deliver a throughput of 65mmscf/d through Ojota, Isolo, Amuwo Odofin, Ilupeju, Matori, Isolo.
In 2007, further expansion grew the network all the way to Apapa and Tin Can delivering 1.809 mmscf/d to the industries in the area. With this, Gaslink has developed an extensive 100km pipeline network covering the major industrial areas in Lagos State. In the near future, Gaslink plans to further extend the platform to other parts of Lagos.
Meanwhile, Oando Gas and Power, the management company for the gas and power subsidiaries is already extending its natural gas infrastructure beyond Lagos State to the South East of the country with the ongoing pipeline construction in Calabar, Cross Rivers State and Akwa Ibom State, through the East Horizon Gas Company, the special purpose vehicle set up for the project.
Gaslink Nigeria limited is an indigenous company, which pioneered the piping and distribution of natural gas to industrial, residential and commercial consumers in the country.
For more information, please contact:
Meka Olowola
Head, Corporate Communications
Oando PLC
2 Ajose-Adeogun Street
Victoria Island, Lagos