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NNPC/NPDC Target Production Of 500,000 Barrels Of Liguefied Natural Gas Per Day

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5 years ago

August 19, 2020

The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engineer Mele Kyari, Wednesday disclosed that the company is aiming at producing 500, 000 barrels of liguefied natural gas per day for domestic consumption.

The Group Managing Director made this disclosure during an inception tour to Oredo Integrated Gas Handling Plant Facility, IGHF, belonging to NPDC in Ologbo, Edo State, to ascertain the level of completion of the facility.

Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, is a subsidiary of the NNPC.

He added that after the completion, Nigeria will be sufficient in Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, stressing that the facility was awarded in 2015 but commenced work in 2017, and will be completed October this year.

According to him, the production of 500, 000 barrels per day would be achieved in the next two years, just as he added that series of projects and activities have been lined up to achieve this.

He noted that NPDC was producing about 136, 000 barrels per day, but with improvement, the company is now producing 260,000 barrels per day, just as he described it as magnificent level of growth in the upstream company.

“A year ago, NPDC was producing about 136 000 barrels per day, but today, we are producing 260, 000 barrels per day. This is a very magnificent level of growth in any upstream company, and our target is to take this company to production level of 500, 000 barrels per day.

“This is possible within two years. We have lined up series of projects and activities in this regards. Today, we have the highest number of rings running in this country. Five rings runing at the same time, adding incremental value, and delivering major projects which will ultimately take to producing that 500 000 target,” he said.

He further disclosed that NPDC, being an indigenous company, contributes about a billion standard cubic feet of gas production to the entire mix of production, adding that majority of it goes into the domestic market.

Kyari said with the support and alignment of stakeholders particularly President Muhammadu Buhari, NPDC would be rated as the number one upstream company in the nation.

Mele Kyari, NNPC GMD signing out from the facility on Wednesday.

“NPDC is a company 100 percent owned by Nigeria, and we are delivering it to be number one upstream company in this country.

” With the support and alignment of all the stakeholders particularly the support we are getting from President Muhammadu Buhari, we are delivering this company (NPDC) as the number one upstream company.

” We are optimistic that gas will now be delivered without interruption into the domestic market; supply of crude oil to the international market by our own company and through our own control will be justified.

“Today, the largest contributor of gas to the domestic market particularly power sector is NPDC. This is a national responsibility and a commercial venture with a national outlook,” he noted.

Earlier, Mansur Sambo, Managing Director, NPDC, said after the completion, not less than 250,000 metric tons will be coming to the domestic market, and that at least 18 to 20 trucks of LPG will be rolled out from the facility on daily basis.

Sambo said, “ On a daily basis, we will be doing between 18 and 20 trucks of LPG, and then we have propelled, as well, we will be having around 15 and 20 in total. We will be delivering about 40 trucks of LPG. That is what translates to the 250,000 metric tons that will be coming to the domestic market.

Sambo assured that with the plant, gas would now be delivered without interruption into the domestic market.

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Actress Doris Ogala Rejects Alleged $10,000 Settlement From Pastor Chris Okafor [VIDEO]

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14 minutes ago

December 29, 2025

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Popular Nollywood actress, Doris Ogala, has rejected the $10,000 settlement from the founder of Grace Nation Bible Ministry, pastor Chris Okafor.

The actress made this known in a video made on Tuesday December 23 2025, and shared on her Instagram page Saturday morning.

Speaking in the video, Ogala stated that the clergy man brought the money as settlement and also begged her to publicly debunk everything she had said about him.

While revealing the outcome of their table talks, she alleged that pastor Chris urged her to lie that she was sent by some pastors to lie against him.

“Chris, you’ve seen me finish ooo, honestly, you have seen me finish. This is $10,000, he gave me this $5,000 last night after we talked and he was pleading and all that. Then he gave me this $5,000 this afternoon.

“This man is just mad. You can imagine this man wanted me to come and say that all the pastors or a few pastors
were the ones who sent me to come and fight him. I should put it on the pastors’ head, then I will come out and debunk everything that I have said. Come on, you want me to take a fool? After all that I have said?

“Chris, you see this money that you gave me, it will never be a transaction of anything in my life or transaction of any part of my body. I cancelled every evil altar that you are coming from. He that is in me and protecting me is greater. I deliberately collected this money to tell you that everything i have said is the truth. I’m not lying and I will never lie. Chris, I’m not as cheap as you are, ten thousand dollars is nothing to me, and I’m not blackmailing you but I wanted the world to see that you actually gave me money. Chris, I will not lie on any pastor or put it on any pastor’s head. So, this is the money he gave to me with the Zenith bank envelope just now. Today is 23 December 2025, and I’m making this video by 5;39 pm”, she stated.

According DAILY POST, the development came a few days after Doris Ogala disclosed that table talks and resolution is ongoing between them.

Recall that Doris called Chris Okafor out after he dumped her for another woman despite promising her marriage.

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BREAKING: Anthony Joshua Involved In Road Accident

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1 hour ago

December 29, 2025

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A renowned global boxer Anthony Joshua has been involved in a road accident on Monday in Makun, Ogun State.

The was said to have occurred along a busy highway of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

The vehicle carrying Joshua reportedly collided with another car under circumstances that are still being investigated.

The said I said to have sustained minor injuries, saying that two people died on the spot.

Meanwhile, fans have flooded social media with messages of concern, while local authorities continue to investigate the cause of the crash.

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Ex-Edo Gov Obaseki Reacts As His Cousin Is Beaten, Stripped

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21 hours ago

December 28, 2025

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The immediate past governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has reacted to the attack on Don Pedro Obaseki, the Chief Executive Officer of Osamudia Farms.

Don Pedro Obaseki, a cousin to the immediate past governor was attacked at Uwa Primary School where he went to play football.

In a viral video, Pedro Obaseki is seen kneeling at the Oba of Benin Palace gate, before he was dragged into the palace where he was asked to crawl before some chief walked up to the scene and rescued him.

Reacting, the ex-Edo governor described the act as a “grave violation of fundamental human rights and a reckless disregard for the rule of law.”

Obaseki, said: “I call on security agencies to immediately investigate this matter thoroughly and transparently, identify those responsible for this barbaric act and ensure they are held accountable in accordance with the law.

“A situation where thugs and non-state actors appear to freely take the law into their own hands on behalf of high-profile individuals and those in positions of authority can only result in one outcome, a degeneration into a state of anarchy, which will do no one no good.”

He further charged, “I urge human rights organizations, civil society groups, and all well-meaning Nigerians to lend their voices and speak out firmly against this injustice and gross violation of human rights.”