By Abdallah el-Kurebe, Editor
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has increased a total of 735 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscfd) to gas fired-power plants in November 2018.
This, according to the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu in a statement made available to Newsdiaryonline Tuesday, is an increase compared with the average of 627mmscfd supplied in October 2018.
Ughamadu said details of the report contained in the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report for the month of November, 2018 released on Tuesday “showed that out of the 212.93 Billion Cubic Feet (bcf) of gas supplied during the period, a total of 123.29bcf of gas was commercialized, consisting of 36.14bcf and 87.15bcf for the domestic and export market respectively.”
The release said this translated to a total supply of 1,204.76 mmscfd of gas to the domestic market and 2,905.06 mmscfd of gas supplied to the export market for the month, implying that 57.91% of the average daily gas produced was commercialized while the balance of 42.09% was re-injected, used as upstream fuel gas or flared.
The total gas supply November 2017 to November 2018 stood at 3,071.13bcf out of which 466.44bcf and 1,317.77 bcf were commercialized for the domestic and export market respectively.
A further breakdown of the report indicated that gas – Injected, fuel gas and gas flared – stood at 1,286.92 bcf.
The November report, the edition 40th edition in the series, announced a trading surplus of ₦2.06billion which represented a laudable improvement of 116% over the previous month’s deficit of ₦12.66billion. This increase in performance month-on-month was primarily attributable to improved efficiency of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company’s (NPDC) operations.
NNPC also posted a total crude oil and gas sale of $668.57 in November, 2018 which is 26.13% higher than the previous month. Crude oil export sales contributed $574.95 million (86.00%) of the dollar transactions compared with $425.00million contribution in the previous month.
Export gas sales amounted to $93.62 million in the month.
The November 2017 to November 2018 crude oil and gas transactions indicated that crude oil & gas worth $5.97 Billion was exported.
In the downstream sector, the NNPC has continued to assiduously monitor the daily stock of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to achieve smooth distribution of petroleum products and zero fuel queue across the nation.
To this end, a total of 1.62bn litres of PMS, translating to 54.0mn liters/day, were supplied for the month.
In November, 2018 a total of 197 pipeline points were vandalized; out of which six pipeline points failed to be welded and two pipeline points were ruptured.
The situation improved from the 219 vandalized points recorded in October 2018, with Mosimi-Ibadan, Ibadan-Ilorin and Aba-Enugu accounting for 58, 35 and 34 points respectively or approximately 29%, 18% and 17% of the vandalized points respectively.
While Atlas Cove-Mosimi accounted for 13%, Warri-Kaduna and PHC-Aba accounted for 8% each and other locations accounted for the remaining 7% of the pipeline breaks
