Nigeria’s lack of infrastructure is hampering the transportation of gas to power plants, and six plants are currently sitting idle in the country because they lack gas, according to Shell’s Nigerian unit, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). “The reason is because we have about six power plants in this country that are standing idle that are not getting gas. The reason why they are not getting gas, even though we are flaring 800million scuf per day is that we don’t have enough pipelines to deliver the gas to the power plants,” SPDC Senior Commercial Adviser, Upstream Gas, Emmanuel Anyaeto, said at a gas forum. Gas producers in Nigeria are owed some US$500 million, mostly by power companies, Anyaeto said , adding that the power companies in turn are also owed huge sums, mostly by the Nigerian federal government. The lagging payments to producers, as well as regulatory issues and […]