Shell to end gas flaring in Nigeria

Shell Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. is working to end gas flaring in and around fields on Nigeria's Bonny River. As a first step, Shell let a $65 million gas gathering project to Italian firm Nuovo Pignone. Nuovo will manufacture three modules for the Odidi Associated Gas Gathering Project, 30 km west of Warri. Odidi project participants are Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., Shell, Elf Nigeria, and Nigeria Agip.

April 27, 1998

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Shell Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. is working to end gas flaring in and around fields on Nigeria's Bonny River.

As a first step, Shell let a $65 million gas gathering project to Italian firm Nuovo Pignone. Nuovo will manufacture three modules for the Odidi Associated Gas Gathering Project, 30 km west of Warri.

Odidi project participants are Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., Shell, Elf Nigeria, and Nigeria Agip.

Shell will collect 80 MMcfd of gas currently flared from the flow stations of Odidi 1, Odidi 2, Egwa 1, Egwa 2, and Batan. Construction of Nuovo Pignone's modules will be completed in 2000.

Meanwhile, Houston-based Global Energy & Refining Ltd. will construct and operate a $42 million plant to recover natural gas liquids and naphtha as part of Shell's 10-year plan to end gas flaring in the area.

Global Energy will construct the plant on a 250-acre site near Shell's Cawthorne Channel production facilities. The plant will process 80 MMcfd of gas beginning late in 2000; additional trains will come on stream as needed.

Global Energy has already purchased an extraction plant to be upgraded.

The project will cost about $150 million, says Global.