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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Nigeria has fully restored the supply of gas on a pipeline affected by a fire last week, a spokesman for NNPC said.The fire was on the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada in the southern state of Edo, the Ministry of Power said.
The fire caused Nigeria’s electricity grid to shut down, according to the Ministry, as it led to gas supplies to several power stations being cut off.
“The sudden loss of generation due to interruption in gas supply from these stations caused the national transmission grid to trip off around 20:20 on January 2,” according to the Ministry at the time.
Nigeria experiences blackouts on a regular basis, so for the most part the outage went unnoticed.
NNPC owns and operates the gas pipelines which feed power plants in the country’s southwest.
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