Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of
State for Petroleum has said that
Nigeria accidentally discovered 206
trillion cubic feet of gas reserves
while in search of crude oil.

Sylva, who disclosed this in Abuja
at a News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) forum, disclosed that the
country could discover an additional
600 trillion cubic feet reserve to
enable it achieve the desired
development required of a gas
nation.

“We’ve a lot of gas in this
country. We have 206 trillion cubic
feet of gas reserves.

“This number is already
discovered in gas reserves and this
206 trillion cubic feet reserve was
found while looking for oil, so it
was accidentally discovered.

“We were actually going to look
for crude oil and we found gas,
and in that process of accidentally
finding gas, we have found up to
206 tcf.

“So, the belief is that if we
really aim to look for gas
dedicatedly, we will find up to 600
trillion cubic meters of gas,” he
said.

According to the minister, the
country’s transition from gas to
renewable fuel will be gradual
when it has fully utilised the
benefits associated with gas.

“We are also transiting and that
is why we are talking about gas.
We see gas as a bridge to
renewable fuels.

“We came from coal which is
solid, to crude oil; now we are
moving to gaseous gas and then to
renewables.

“The belief in the industry is that
if we have this kind of vast
resource and we have not tapped
it, why should we abandon it and
move to renewables.

“We have not used gas to drive
our cars and few people use it for
cooking; we have not used gas to
generate electricity or used it to
fire our fertiliser blending plants,
then why should we abandon it
and move to renewables?

“What we are saying is that the
western countries are in a position
to move to renewables after using
coal and crude oil to stabilise the
electricity in their areas and
everybody there enjoys it.

“But we have a situation in
Nigeria where a lot of people do
not have access to electricity yet.

“So, what we are saying is that
we agree to transit but let us use
our gas first to develop our
country and get the benefits of
development, that point where
everybody has electricity, then we
can transit to renewable fuel,” he
added.

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The location of the gas you discovered.

Yet gas no cheap oo

gloriaunobi:
The location of the gas you discovered.

imo state

So gas has been discovered in sokoto
Wow the north has finally contributed something tangible to nigeria,no need for biafra again congrats to my Fulani brothers

Discovered where ,press boy?

They have finished stealing the oyel in ss now na IMO State gas their opkolo eyes don dey eye��.
E no go better for all of them.

They can't mention the location because the people there are still restive. They have the highest Gas reserve in Nigeria