Ossiomo accuses NGMC of forceful shutdown of gas facility

OSSIOMO Power Company has reported a forceful shut down of its gas facility by the Nigeria Gas Marketing Company ( NGMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company ( NNPC).

A statement signed by Adeyinka Ladejobi on behalf of the company said the situation had been escalated to the right quarters to resolve the matter.

He said: “We apologise for this unannounced outage. This outage is as a result of a forceful shutdown of our gas plant by NGMC without any notice.

“The situation has been escalated accordingly and we shall keep you posted. Thanks.”