Anambra is set to get its first pipeline as the Nigeria Gas Infrastructure Company, a subsidiary of NNPCL in partnership with Fradro Gas & Power, has concluded plans to lay a twenty-four inches, six hundred million standard cubic feet Gas pipeline from Agbor to Awka to give Ndi Anambra a sense of belonging.
The Gas pipeline, which is the first of it’s kind in the history of Anambra State, will be layed under the River Niger, passing through Onitsha to Awka .
When completed the gas infrastructure will be opening up new business and employment opportunities, direct and indirect jobs along the corridor.
Speaking during a preparatory meeting with Stakeholders drawn from the Association of Anambra State Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture, and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, the state commissioner for Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Barrister Anthony Ifeanya, urged the assembly to assist in identifying stakeholders and offtakers for the project he discribed as a game-changer.
Commissioner Ifeanya further disclosed that a larger stakeholders meeting has been scheduled to hold on 28th May, 2025, by the Nigeria Gas Infrastructure Company, a subsidiary of NNPCL in partnership with Fradro Gas & Power, to make the project worthwhile.
For the Commissioner of Commerce and Industry Mr. Christian Udechukwu, they do not lack investors in the sector but only prefers that the operators are Ndi Anambra, hence their invitation as the first destination point.
The Special Assistant to Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Engineer Ikechukwu Okafor, weighed in his technical expertise on the comparative advantages of using Gas to fuel thermal power stations and other associated businesses that need gas.
Reacting, the Deputy Chairman, Association of Anambra State Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture, Dr. Ndubuisi Nwobu and the President, Onitsha Chambers of Commerce, Chief Augustine Ibeme, while heving a sigh of relief, appealed to state government to invest in Gas turbines in IPP’s to achieve power security and further reduce the cost of electrical power to investors.
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