Once commissioned the pipeline will transport 600,000 bbl/d of oil. Currently half of the line has been commissioned.

The pipeline collects crude from 14 oil pumping stations and is part of a programme to replace ageing pipelines in the Niger River delta.

Meanwhile Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke has unveiled a three-step action plan aimed at ensuring that all power plants billed to come on stream in the future get adequate gas supply to fire them.

The Minister listed the three-step action plan to include immediate delivery of gas projects, consolidation of end-to-end connection of gas pipelines and…