In his mandate to distribute natural gas to companies operating within the Lagos Free zone, Optimera Energy Enterprise has started the construction of gas infrastructure at the Zone.
At the ground-breaking, the Managing Director of Optimera Energy, Mrs Audrey Joe-Ezigbo, said that the infrastructure comprised a 25 million Standard Cubic Feet per day City Gate Station, scalable to 100MMScf/d.
According to Joe-Ezigbo, the project included other ancillary infrastructure like 10km distribution lines within the zone as well as a 6.5km x 10 inches gas pipeline from the Escravos – Lagos Pipeline System tie-in point in the Lekki corridor, outside the zone to Optimera City Gate Station at the LFZ.
She explained that Optimera Energy had signed a 20-year Gas Infrastructure Development Agreement with the Lagos Free Zone Company to connect off-takers to its gas distribution infrastructure within the zone.
“The LFZC has invested over $2.5bn in building a world-class facility integrated with Lekki Deep Seaport in the Zone, particularly as this project is fully aligned with the nation’s Decade of Gas aspirations,” she said.
The Chief Executive Officer of LFZC, Mr Dinesh Rathi, described the project as “one step closer to our goal of providing reliable and cleaner energy solutions to meet the needs of existing and future tenants at LFZ”.
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