Nigeria’s ANOH Gas Project Delivers First Gas After Years of Delays, Dodges Failed State Pipeline
After years of anticipation and infrastructure setbacks, Nigeria’s ambitious ANOH gas project has finally achieved first gas production, marking a significant milestone for the country’s domestic energy supply. Seplat Energy announced that the 300 million standard cubic feet per day capacity facility in the Eastern Niger Delta commenced gas supply to Indorama Petrochemical Plant on Friday, January 16, 2026, following completion of an 11-kilometer export pipeline and regulatory approval from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission.
The development comes as a workaround to a decade-long infrastructure failure by the state oil company. The original plan called for evacuating over half of ANOH’s gas production through the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben pipeline, which has remained uncompleted since construction began in 2014 under the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Forced to find alternatives, the project operators constructed a dedicated pipeline to Indorama and are now preparing to supply Nigeria LNG on an interruptible basis.
Since achieving first gas, the facility has been stabilizing production, delivering between 40 and 52 million standard cubic feet per day of processed gas directly to Indorama, Nigeria’s second-largest petrochemicals manufacturing facility. Condensate production has reached between 2,000 and 2,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day and is expected to increase as the plant ramps up to design capacity.
The ANOH gas plant was developed by ANOH Gas Processing Company, an incorporated joint venture between Seplat Energy and Nigerian Gas Infrastructure Company. The integrated facility consists of two 150 million standard cubic feet per day gas processing units, liquefied petroleum gas recovery units, condensate stabilization units, a 16-megawatt power plant and supporting facilities, all designed to operate with zero routine flares. The gas sales agreement with Indorama calls for up to 80 million standard cubic feet per day of gas supply to the petrochemical plant.
Across the unitized field covering Oil Mining Leases 53 and 21, the ANOH gas plant unlocks an estimated 4.6 trillion cubic feet of condensate-rich gas resource base. The facility will process flared gas from the Ohaji field, enabling Seplat to achieve its onshore end of routine flaring program. The project was completed without a single recordable lost time incident across 17.5 million man-hours.
Source: africaoilgasreport.com
