Nigeria: NNPCL Gas Master Plan – Cascading a Broader Private Sector Participation

Nigeria’s gas sector is moving from a resource-based industry to a system-planned commercial market. The NNPC Gas Master Plan 2026 (GMP) represents the most coordinated attempt yet to solve the country’s long-standing paradox: abundant gas reserves but persistent domestic supply shortages.

For upstream operators, midstream developers, financiers and industrial gas users, the Plan materially changes how gas projects will be structured, financed and monetised over the next decade.

The Plan is built…