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Olorunsogo
NIPP generation plant (Photo source: thenationonline.com)
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THISDAY
reports that lack of gas supply is delaying takeoff of the 563 megawatts (MW)
Calabar National Integrated Power Plant (NIPP) located in Odukpani LGA, Cross River
State.
The
report states:
But
for the unexpected lack of commitment to agreements signed by the Niger Delta
Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Plc with Addax Petroleum to supply gas to the 563
megawatts (MW) Calabar National Integrated Power Plant (NIPP), the new power
plant would have been active and contributing to Nigeria’s electricity
generation profile by now.
THISDAY
recently learnt from credible sources at the combined open cycle plant, which
is located in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, that it had
long attained 95 per cent completion, but the technical commissioning of its
generating turbines could not take place because there was no gas as expected
from Addax.
This
has thus left the plant inactive and waiting for gas supply for its technical
commissioning before coming on stream.
But
in spite of this delay, the project consultant, Steag Encotec West Africa (SEWA)
and its Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor, Marubeni
West Africa, told Vice President Namadi Sambo, who recently visited the plant
that the Balance of Plant (BoP) commissioning at the plant will begin in
December following the expected delivery of first gas by the new supplier,
ACCUGAS in October.
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