Nigeria to award gas flare contract in Q3’19 — Kachikwu vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Kachikwu who stated this in a media parley in Abuja, also said that Nigeria is losing about $1 billion annually to gas flare.
He said, “Premised on the foregoing, the policy position of His Excellency, President Muhammad Buhari is that gas flaring is totally unacceptable. In this regard, the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, initiated a number of actions to reaffirm its commitment to ending the practice of gas flaring in our oil fields.
He stated this in Abuja, during the commissioning of Nigerian Army Welfare Limited by Guarantee, NAWLG/Gasland Nigeria Limited, Liquefied Petroleum Gas plant in Mambila Barracks, Abuja, and the launch of LPG Micro Distribution Centres in Nigeria Army barracks and cantonments. The minister explained that the regulation would increase cooking gas selling points across the country by about 10,000, which is about the same number of filling stations in Nigeria.
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