1,500MW Lost to Pipeline Bombings - NNPC

Posted by George on Fri 10th Jun, 2016 - tori.ng

The state-owned oil company in Nigeria, NNPC has commented on the electricity loss suffered due to incessant bombing activities of the Niger Delta militants.

Concerns continue to loom over the state of affairs of the country’s power supply, as recent report by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, puts a colossal loss of 1,500 megawatts of electricity to attacks on oil and gas facilities by militants in the Niger Delta, according to the Vanguard.

This is even as the capacity of Warri refining and petrochemical company plummeted from 25.65 per cent in March to 6. 36 per cent in April this year.

However, the country’s generation as at yesterday, stood at 2,087.90 megawatts, against its lowest generation of 820.5MW, recorded on Wednesday, with the peak generation of 2,516.9 megawatts on that same day.

NNPC in its financial and operations report, said it lost about N19.43 billlion in April because crude oil supply dropped from 59.27 million barrels in February to 57.43 million barrels in March.

The report further stated that 541 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, mmscfd, was delivered to the gas fired power plants in April this year to generate an average power of about 2,466mw.

This is compared with May 2015 to April 2016 average gas supply of 686 mmscfd and power generation of 2,969mw.

The supply dipped following persistent bombings of the country’s pipelines and oil facilities which supply gas to the power plants.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, said the country recorded a loss of 4,031 megawatts of electricity over crisis of pipeline bombings, which had led to gas shortage to plants.