Nigeria: Govt Ramps Up Gas Supply Efforts, Set to Deliver $700m OB3 Pipeline in August

The federal government at the weekend said it was ramping up gas supply to boost the country’s industrialisation and economic growth with the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben (OB3) Gas Pipeline project set for delivery in August.

The 48-inch, 127-kilometre OB3 gas pipeline, being built by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and estimated to cost $700 million when work commenced on it in 2016, had long been delayed.

Equally known as the East-West Pipeline, the pipeline connects the…