Despite a recent story that the project’s financiers have quit, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has made work on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project. The NNPCL visited the pipeline site to check on the construction under the direction of Group CEO Mele Kyari. The pipeline is a major project meant to boost Nigeria’s economy and capability for power generation through industrialization and other means. The project calls for building a 40″ x 614 km linear section from Ajaokuta in Kogi State to Kano, as well as a 24″ x 15 km spur line to the Abuja Terminal Gas Station, four terminal gas stations, 22 block valve stations, intermediate pigging stations, and other ancillary facilities.
Three independent power plants that have been proposed as well as other gas-based sectors can receive two billion standard cubic feet of natural gas per day through the pipeline. 93.48% of the project’s two segments’ combined engineering design is complete, and 90% of the project’s line pipes have already been built in the country. The Federal Executive Council approved the project in 2018 for the price of $2.8 billion after the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission and Bureau for Public Procurement approved its procurement process. However, in 2019, the project’s cost was reduced to $2.5 billion, and the NNPCL has since funded more than $1.1 billion.