The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) delivered 828 million metric standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) to gas fired power plants to generate an average power of about 3,342 Mega Watts (MW) of electricity in December 2017, The Guardian reports.

This was relatively higher than the average production of 743 mmscfd, which was supplied to generate 3,115MW in the previous month, according to the NNPC in its Domestic Gas Supply to the Power Sector/ Generation. Though, electricity supply in the country is still below the installed capacity, gas supply to power plants have consistently increased from 387 mmscfd recorded in January 2017 to 625 mmscfd in September and later increased to 716 mmscfd in October of the same year.

NNPC said that out of the 234.08 Billion Cubic Feet (BCF) of gas supplied in December 2017, a total of 138.99 BCF of gas was commercialized, comprising of 39.53 BCF and 99.46BCF for the domestic and export market respectively. This, it said, translates to a total supply of 1,275.09 mmscfd of gas to the domestic market and 3,209.70 mmscfd of gas supplied to the export market.

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