With
domestic gas demand expected to further increase, as more power plants are set
to come on stream to bridge power supply deficits, Nigeria needs to look beyond
the Gas Master Plan and explore its inland basins to meet its gas needs,
industry experts have said.
The
Nigerian Gas Master Plan (NGMP) which was approved in February 2008, was
designed to optimise the vast gas resources in the country, but almost six
years after, not much of the desired result has been achieved.
According
to the experts, Nigeria boasts of huge gas resources in the inland basins,
which are yet to be exploited. The inland basins comprise the Anambra basin,
the lower, middle, and upper Benue trough, the southeastern sector of the Chad
basin, the Mid-Niger (Bida) basin, and the Sokoto basin.
“We
have multiple inland basins that have
