NIPP Power Stations Ready to Generate 2,910MW, Says Report
immediate future, it members would be forced to streamline overhead costs and their work force may be impacted.
MOMAN also appealed to the Ministry of Finance to pay authorised marketers that has been cleared by PPPRA with Sovereign Debt Notes (SDN) all outstanding principal sums.
MOMAN also appealled to the ministry of finance to ensure that all ancillary burdens such as interest and forex differential incurred by the marketers as a results of the late payment be immediately reimbursed. price and future expectation to remain so, many governments and oil companies are re-strategising to ensure its continual survival. The Nigerian Government and NNPC are also advised to follow suit. Recommendations include; passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), restructure public finances, subsidy removal on petroleum products, focus on profitable subsidiaries, review CAPEX spending, explore Asian markets, domestic refinery optimization and deliver export and domestic gas projects.”
“However, we also believe projects in Nigeria currently exhibit low capital productivity and there is much you can do in terms of right scoping, design-to-value, more effective contractor management, and lean construction in order to deliver projects at lower cost,” Okon said.
NNPC in addition to requesting for such structural reforms, also canvassed that Nigeria should shift its attention to developing her natural gas resource, which currently has a discovered quantity that is in excess of 179 trillion cubic feet (TCF).
Nigeria with its gas reserves of 179TCF ranks ninth in the world and first in Africa, yet its gas production is only ranked 23rd in the world. A Status Report presented to the 31st Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) held on April 17, 2015 has revealed that power stations built under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) are ready to generate 2,910.1 megawatts of electricity. This, however, is subject to availability of gas to the plants, THISDAY has learnt. Vice President Namadi Sambo is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NDPHC, owners of the NIPP.
According to the Executive Summary of the report, which was obtained exclusively by THISDAY, a total of 265 out of 296 injection substations have also been completed under the NIPP, with 13, 367 completely self-protected (CSP) transformers installed nationwide.
The report listed other most recent key achievements of NIPP to include the completion of 2.1 kilometres gas pipeline from Creek Town to Ikot Nyong; inauguration of the 561 megawatt-capacity Calabar Power Station Lot 1 built by Marubeni West Africa; inauguration of 330KV DC Jos-Makurdi Lot 1A, which is over 250 kilometres and the inauguration of Makurdi 330/132/33KV Substation Lot 1B.Others include the inauguration of 132KV DC Adiabo-Calabar transmission substation, among others.
In the area of power generation, the report listed six out of the 10 NIPP power plants, which are already adding power to the national grid.
These six power stations are now ready to generate 2,910 megawatts of electricity into the grid, subject to the availability of gas supply.
A breakdown of the generating capacities of these plants showed that the 562.5 megawatt-capacity Calabar Power Station built by Marubeni is now generating 112.5 megawatts; 451mw-capacity Ihovbor Power Plant in Edo State is now producing 225 megawatts; while the 451mwcapacity Sapele Power Station, also built by Marubeni currently generates 112.5mw.
Others include 450 mwcapacity Olorunsogo Power Station in Ogun State, which generates 225megawatts; 450 megawatt-capacity Omotosho Power Station in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State which generates 225 megawatts and 434.1mwcapacity Geregu Power Station in Kogi State, which generates 289.4 megawatts.
The report identified vandalism of gas pipeline as a major risk facing the NIPP plants, noting that the vandalism of the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline “has resulted in major curtailment of generation at Ihovbor, Sapele, Omotosho, Olorunsogo and Geregu.” The report also disclosed that there are no committed gas supplies for Geregu and Ihovbor.
NIPP was conceived in 2004 as a major fast-track initiative to add significant new generation capacity to Nigeria’s electricity supply industry.
The generation projects are accompanied by supporting transmission, distribution and gas transport infrastructure projects. NIPP includes ten medium-sized gas fired power plants. Eight of these power plants were initially designed as open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) power plants while the remaining two were designed as combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants.
Seven of the OCGT plants have the capacity to be expanded to combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) configuration.