The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group
Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, has directed that repair works should be
executed immediately on the Escarvos to Lagos Pipeline (ELP) ruptured by an
explosion today along Egbokodo-Omadino, in Warri South Local Government Area of
Delta State to restore supplies from Escravos.
Dr. Baru further directed that gas supply from other sources
like Oben, Oredo, Sapele, Ughelli and Utorogu be stepped up to augment any
shortfalls as repair works have commenced on the pipeline.
The Escravos pipeline supplies gas to power plants, in
addition to feeding the West Africa Gas Pipeline System.
It should be recalled that ELPS-C (downstream) of this
pipeline was incinerated by a bush fire January 2 at Abakila, in Ondo State,
which had since been rectified and brought back to service.
The earlier fire incident had affected gas supply to
customers in Ondo, Ogun and Lagos State with subsequent shutdown of some power
plants with a combined generating capacity of 1,143MW.
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