Well, this is not really the case. Gas supply constraints are not really due to availability at flowstations but across the major trunk line, ELPS. Even though gas piplelines are rarely the target of vandals, vandalization of oil pipelines often affect Associated Gas (AG) production and also hinders on condensate evacuation at gas plants. If you can't evacuate condensate, you have to shut-in your wells.
Gas is very much available and in excess. The current volumes being flared is enough to cater for CNG demand. You can make case for processing facilities but not availability.
There are smaller CNG compressors that can be installed at flowstation to cater for CNG needs. It takes few weeks for these hook up. Offtake can be done using CNG Skids shown below and can be transported from Bayelsa to Maiduguri. Greenville currently supplies LNG from Rivers to Maiduguri. If you have LNG, compressing to CNG is only a matter of when your regas plant and compressors are available. I don't see CNG availability as an issue if there's a will
We don’t even have enough gas to power our plants for electricity and cook but the government wants to add more pressure on the short supply via CNG buses.
Beyond the impossibility of this initiative, what do we think will happen to the price of gas ?.
Great initiative but ill-timed
The government knows this. They need to stop deceiving Nigerians with this CNG issue.
It’s okay to come clean and switch plans to Electric vehicles while we ramp up gas production