{"id":175174,"date":"2024-06-24T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-govt-ramps-up-gas-supply-efforts-set-to-deliver-700m-ob3-pipeline-in-august\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:08:32","slug":"nigeria-govt-ramps-up-gas-supply-efforts-set-to-deliver-700m-ob3-pipeline-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-govt-ramps-up-gas-supply-efforts-set-to-deliver-700m-ob3-pipeline-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Govt Ramps Up Gas Supply Efforts, Set to Deliver $700m OB3 Pipeline in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The federal government at the weekend said it was ramping up gas supply to boost the country&#8217;s industrialisation and economic growth with the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben (OB3) Gas Pipeline project set for delivery in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Equally known as the East-West Pipeline, the pipeline connects the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406240024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government at the weekend said it was ramping up gas supply to boost the country&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[31087,258,256,8060,6126,6357,7168,4357,257,4687,393,48855,6773,9625,7106,254,5236],"class_list":["post-175174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-700m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-deliver","tag-efforts","tag-gas","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ob3","tag-pipeline","tag-ramps","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}