Kyari Reveals How Gas Can Solve Nigeria’s Electricity Problem

Mele Kyari

Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has made an insightful revelation on how Nigeria can solve its electricity problems.

Kyari was speaking at a media interactive session with National Association of Energy Correspondents in Abuja, on Friday, where he said that gas will help the country out of its major challenge of electricity.

Kyari also revealed that NNPC’s new focus is on gas development as the most resilient source of energy in the energy transition process.

“The only oil and gas that survived during the COVID-19 with minimal negative change was gas. Gas will help Nigeria out of its major challenge of electricity” he said.

He noted that the biggest challenge in Nigeria “is to take electricity to homes, industries and to use the resources we have to create that energy this country needs.”

He lamented the bottleneck in the transmission and distribution system of electricity that has made it difficult to transmit electricity to those in need of it.

“Today for two reasons we are not getting electricity because the production is low and we are not able to transmit it to those who need it.

“That means there is bottle neck in transmission and distribution system,” he added.

Kyari also noted that although Nigeria is known as an oil country it is more a gas nation than an oil nation.

He reiterated NNPC’s continued commitment towards ensuring full gas development in the country for economic growth.

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