Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Gas Limited (SNG), Ralph Gbobo, has assured manufacturers at Nigeria’s largest manufacturing equipment and raw material expo, organised by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Lagos, of the company’s resolve to continue to collaborate with industry stakeholders and government to find lasting solution to current challenges facing the industry with supply of domestic gas.
He reiterated SNG’s commitment to provide manufacturing and industrial customers with clean, reliable, low-cost alternatives to liquid fuel, and to assist in building a stronger Nigerian economy.
Gbobo said: “Immediate implementation, at zero cost to government, of initiatives, such as enforcing discipline and transparency in the gas transportation network operation, enforcing contractual terms across the gas value chain and implementing the network code, and enforcement of gas system balancing are proposals that would provide critical foundation for other (medium and long term) solutions.”
“Solutions that include upgrading existing transportation infrastructure, completing critical gas pipelines and network interconnectivity, promoting a willing-buyer/willing-seller marketplace, setting globally competitive fiscals for gas, and improving regulator efficiency and effectiveness.”
Discussing the insights into Nigeria’s gas market, the SNG boss said that the domestic gas market faces challenges that include limited processing and transportation infrastructure, inadequate measurement and control systems, non-implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) And Network Code, lack of transparency in gas injections and off-take, and non-enforcement of gas system balancing.
