Ovamboland:


It is obvious in your submission that you have allowed your preference or dislike for a certain candidates becloud your professional judgment in this matter. Your statements about conceptual FEED etc. show that you’re exposed to how engineering projects are conducted. To be honest there is hardly any engineering judgment or decision that is all positive and gives only advantages without certain inherent drawbacks. The expertise is to make optimum judgment that best tackles the peculiar local problems and sideline or solve as many problems as possible not all. Some of these problems in the Nigerian context include:
1. Lack of adequate gas delivery framework to most parts of the country
2. Failure of government to guarantee safety of the existing long distance pipelines
3. Dearth of local maintenance capability for maintenance of the huge gas turbines in large IPPs as opposed to comparatively efficient Gas engines (reciprocating) that can be deployed in the small IPP’s
4. Long gestation period to realize the huge power projects 3 – 5 years (many 200MW + projects initiated and started under OBJ before 2007 are still uncompleted 7 years after) as opposed to about 1 year for small projects construction of which can be given to several contractors simultaneously as required technical input is far lower.
5. The time to install and rig high tension power lines cost of huge pylons, heavy duty switch gears, transformers, sub-stations 33,000 KVA to 11,000 KVA etc
In the light of the above, the novelty of the idea to take for instance 100 small towns for whom 10MW will be a miracle off the grid and concentrate production from huge plants like Egbin to Lagos and nearby all within 1 year.
The debate should be about the relative cost of generation per KW.h as opposed to the cost of generation in large plants and transmission cost. Also consider the gestation period of each project, why consign millions of Nigerians to 2 -3 more years of darkness while waiting for gas pipelines and grid transmission? You think darkness is cheaper than a bit more expensive power? The mega projects must go on but you can leap frog development like people who mean business. By the time the grid power is available some towns might have grown beyond the token 10MW and need more power with investments in processing agricultural produce, meat packing, frozen food which is non-existent at this time. Private investors might even establish plants and sell power if the government develops the gas delivery infrastructure utilizing railway and trucking in complementary fashion.
A friend who owns and runs a factory told me his monthly Diesel cost topped 3 million monthly until shell gas pipeline ran close to his factory. Now he spends about 800,000 naira monthly purchasing same power from IPP’s with his Diesel gen only as occasional back-up.
Off-grid power generation is the new direction in power systems worldwide with the development of micro-turbines that individuals can generate power in their home cheaply. This is not feasible now in Nigeria as the infrastructure for gas delivery in homes is absent.

The possibilities are endless if you open your mind, leave your high horse and leave blind criticism of a man who has a plan as opposed to support for one who is yet to articulate any plan.

Ovamboland:


Yes it is produced by Green Fuel in Sango-Otta Ogun state, mentioned that several times in earlier post

netotse:


Oga, I know a bit about all the gases you wrote up there and I agree with what he wrote, re-educate me

Ovamboland:


NG - Natural gas at pipeline quality is mainly Methane at about 17 Bar pressure

LPG - Mixture of Butane and Propane in different proportion mainly used for domestic purpose

CNG - natural gas mainly Methane compressed to about 240 Bar in order to transport larger quantity per volume

LNG - mainly Methane refrigerated to cryogenic temperatures - 162°C and transported over long distance as liquids to be regassified as destination

NGL - mixture of hydrocarbon gases C1 to C12 to be further processed to constitients

ogb5:
Voting in knowledgeable people is one of the beauty of democracy. This has been well developed by the advanced democracies in the west. To ensure that the nation elects the right people with the right skills, experience and qualifications, politicians are normally grilled on a range of subjects to gauge their understanding of the issues affecting their countries or constituency as the case may be.

In this vein looking at the power policy thrust of the APC as being put forward by no other person than their vice presidential candidate bring to fore some gross deficiency in the policy of the APC on power and shows that professor Osinbajo does not know what power generation entails.

The APC vice has consistently said that their government will improve power supply, the question is how will they do that.
The answer to the question of 'how' was answered by Osinbajo on Tuesday in Ondo during a town hall session. This is what he had to say.

1. They will decentralise power generation.
2. The decentralised power plants will have gas supplied to them by trucks instead of pipelines
3. They will copy the model of power plants already established in Lagos state.

herein lies the ignorance of the professor, also hidden in the rhetoric of the professor is the avenue for looting the treasury.
1. Power generation has been decentralised. Anyone, be it federal government, state government, local government or private companies can now set up power generation plant and sell such produced power as they deem fit. So Osinbajo should tell us something different.

2. Technically you can not supply a power plant like the one in Lagos with gas using trucks. This simply mean the professor and those formulating his policy on power generation knows nothing about power generation. The Lagos plant uses natural gas, that is another theme for methane gas. Industrially methane has 2 means of being transported, by pipelines when the point of use is less than 5,000 km and as liquefied natural gas by ships followed by re gasification when the point of use is more than 5, 000 km from the point of production. The gas supplied by trucks is liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used for domestic cooking. No country in the world bases her power generation on LPG. Moreover Nigeria does not have the facility to produce adequate LPG to cater for domestic cooking, so using LPG for power generation is out of the question. So Osinbajo promising to supply gas to power plants with trucks is simply talking about something that is not possible.

3. Osinbajo promised to model his modular power plants after the Lagos power plant. Simply put, the Lagos power plant is among the most expensive gas fired power plant in the world. The Ikeja modular power plant has an installed capacity of 10 megawatts and was built at a cost of 3.2 billion Naira. That was equivalent to about 2 billion usd per gigawatt of electricity. Globally the benchmark cost for gas fired power plants is 1 billion usd per gigawatt of electricity, the Ikeja plant cost twice the global benchmark for such plants. By planning to go with the Lagos model, Osinbajo is telling us the will deliver power at twice the global benchmark cost, and at a cost far higher than the current government is delivering power projects. Several gas fired power plants delivered by the current government in the last 4 yrs were delivered at less than 1 . 3 billion usd per gigawatt.

So Osinbajo has no clue about power generation, he is simply spooling out impossible promises to confuse the electorates. Worse part is that he is a pastor that is supposed to stand by the truth, how will he face God at the end of the day after telling blatant lies on the campaign trail.

http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-will-slash-tariffs-on-imported-cars-osinbajo/

kobonaire:
Looks rather staged, like a photo-op. Some of the young ladies even have smirks on their faces

Rapsowdee01:
In JIM BEGLIN'S voice "i dont believe this, i do not believe" ....

I suspect...
This is another plot against President Jonathan's competence with security issues in the country.... OP, whoever paid you to do this ehn !! both of you will face God's judgement (IF THIS IS A LIE)....If it's the TRUTH !!!! I'll still vote GEJ !!!!!

#MARCH4GEJ
#WeWantNoMARCHUARI !!!!

David0:
Where's d video, cos d pix looks like arrangee for me o.

decepticos:
I hope you know that this is based on the present comics (I heard so I haven't read them) and very different from the one in the movie where keanu Reaves plays d titular character, and who said no other person knows, the nun mentioned that the catholic church has been fighting something of the sort for centuries. I likened it to Grimm too but I will keep at it with or without a 2nd season. what could have been done better. Constantine has a dark theme and people die just like that Fox probably hasn't dealt with a "horror series" of this kind before, so people ain't used to it. I am just guessing.

decepticos:
a clip/trailer was put up on their fb page, I didn't see it though. and how does one get tired of Constantine.

decepticos:
the vamps are still here and they will face a new hunter

kokosheen:
And they released the funds to the state govt. just before elections – hmmmm Okay.

The people should wait till 2019 elections for the state govt. to release it to the LGAs, if we're to follow FG antecedence.

Now, its no longer stomach infastructure, its about telling people that money is coming - just wait and vote for me, money is coming.

kai, my people don suffer.