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Thursday, January 4, 2018
A fire on a gas pipeline caused Nigeria’s electricity grid to shut down, according to the West African country’s Ministry of Power. The fire on the pipeline caused gas supplies to several power stations to be cut off.
The fire was on the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada in the southern state of Edo, the Ministry said. “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.”
Nigeria experiences blackouts on a regular basis, so for the most part the outage went unnoticed.
NNPC, Nigeria’s state oil firm, reported it was working to restore gas supply on the affected pipelines, which feed power plants in the country’s southwest.
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