By Yunus Yusuf
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has revealed how additional 3,000 megawatts of electricity can be generated from the current gas being flared in the country.
The means of generating more megawatts of electricity is contained in DPR’s report made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at a workshop organised for energy journalists in Lagos on Friday.
The report says the country currently flares about 11 per cent of its gas production, bringing Nigeria to seventh in the world.
According to the report, if government is able to harness the gas currently being flared at the 139 flare locations across the Niger Delta, it would boast of 3,000 MW of electricity in the nearest future.
It explained that solution to gas flaring challenge is for government to construct pipelines, which will harness all gas currently being flared into one position for commercialisation.
To this end, the report explained that government’s current…
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