The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has shifted the delivery date for the $700m Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben gas pipeline project (OB3), from March 2024 to August.
The company’s Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Olufemi Soneye revealed this in a statement over the weekend.
According to the statement, the Minister for Petroleum Resources for States Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, while speaking on the significance of the project during an inspection tour of the OB3 pipeline River Niger Crossing operation at Aboh, Delta State, on Saturday, said the project would now be completed and commissioned latest by August.
“I was here last year and I saw the work that was going on. There was a promise that it would be completed by December last year. I took it with a doubt. But today, from what I can see, I am confident that by July or August, it will be completed and it will be commissioned by the President,” the minister stated.
The shift in delivery date by the NNPCL was in contrast to what Ekpo said on February 28, 2024, at the 7th Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja, that the project would be completed in March this year.
