Volume 3, issue #6 - 25-02-1998

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Mobil to launch second phase of Nigerian project

Dec. 12, 1997 Mobil producing Nigeria has reached an advanced stage in its preparations to launch phase two of its Oso gas project, contracted at a cost of $ 810 million. It is planned that products from the project will hit the market in the first quarter of 1998.
Randy Broiles, the company's executive director, exploration and production, said the project was moving towards a first quarter 1998 start-up.
The first team of technicians selected for operations at the plant had completed their Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) process training at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Canada, he said.
According to him, the company's existing assets could yield 900 bpd in 2000 and 1,000 bpd by 2001.
The Oso NGL plant, which produces 600 mm cubic feet of gas daily, started production in 1995 and is expected to boost utilisation of the nation's abundant gas resources.
Mobil officials said the bulk of the gas from the project would be used at the proposed 30 megawatt power station being built by Mobil to augment power supply by the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA).
The project is one of six gas schemes being undertaken by the Nigerian government and its joint-venture partners.