The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Thursday said an average supply of 745mmscfd of gas representing an increase of 8.60 per cent went to the power sector daily between October 2019 and October 2020.
The supply, the corporation said is equivalent to generate 2,801 Megawatts of power for the period out of a total 3,018 bcf of gas produced at an average daily production of 7,658.88 mmscfd for the period.
Group General Manager, Public Affairs, Kennie Obateru, stated in the October 2020 NNPC Financial and Operations Reports (MFOR) that the October supplies also indicates that period-to-date gas production from Joint Ventures (JVs), Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) and NPDC contributed about 68.18 per cent, 20.12 per cent and 11.70 per cent respectively to the total national gas production.
In terms of natural gas off-take, commercialization and utilization, out of the 208.96bcf of gas supplied in October 2020, a total of 118.40bcf of gas was commercialized, consisting of 38.07bcf and 88.90bcf for the domestic and export market respectively. This translates to a total supply of 1,269.03mmscfd of gas to the domestic market and 2,870.57mmscfd of gas supplied to the export market for the month.
Furthermore, in the report, the NNPC announced that its downstream subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), recorded a total of ₦158.04 billion from the sales of white products in the month of October 2020 representing 92% increase over the ₦80.15 billion sales in September 2020.
The report indicates that total revenues generated from the sales of white products for the period October 2019 to October 2020 stood at ₦1.95 trillion, with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) accounting for about 99.07 per cent of the total sales with a value of over ₦1. 9 trillion.
In terms of volume, the October 2020 sales figure translates to a total of 1.224.54 billion litres of white products sold and distributed by PPMC within the period compared with 603.39 million litres in the month of September 2020.
This comprised 1.224.20 billion litres of PMS, 0.31 million litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) also known as diesel and 0.033 million litres of Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK).
Total sales of white products for the period October 2019 to October 2020 stood at 16.462.50 billion litres and PMS accounted for 16.344.36 billion litres or 99.28%.
In the month under review, 23 pipeline points were vandalized representing about 10 per cent increase from the 21 points recorded in September 2020. Of this figure, Mosimi Area accounted for 83 per cent of the vandalized points while Port Harcourt Area accounted for the remaining 17 per cent.
In the Gas Sector, a total of 214.07 Billion Cubic Feet (bcf) of natural gas was produced in the month October 2020, translating to an average daily production of 6,908.34 Million Standard Cubic Feet per Day (mmscfd).
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