Nigerians To Experience A Week Of Blackout

Nigerians will experience a week-
long electricity rationing that will put
the country into darkness for the
period. This will be the longest
period in recent years that the
country would be faced with
blackout.
The development is coming few days
after the Federal Government
declared that its hand-over of the
assets and facilities of PHCN
including generation and
distribution plants to private firms
was successful.
The authorities had explained that
the problem was due to the loss of
400 megawatts following repair
works being carried out by the Shell
Petroleum Development Company
(SPDC), the major suppliers of gas to
the power plants particularly Afam VI
Power plant.
The management of Transmission
Company of Nigeria (TCN) in a
statement in Abuja yesterday said
there would be a reduction in
generation output by 400mw, from
today to Saturday, November 9,
2013. According to the statement,
“this is due to the Shell Petroleum
Development Company’s (SPDC)
scheduled maintenance work on
Okoloma gas plant supplying gas to
Afam VI Power Plant, thereby leading
to the shutdown of the power plant,
resulting in nationwide power
rationing.”
It explained further that the
shutdown of Afam VI power plant
became necessary to allow SPDC
inspect and carry out routine
maintenance work on the Okoloma
natural gas station in Afam, Rivers
State, to ensure its technical
integrity.
“Maintenance work on Okoloma gas
plant, SPDC revealed was important
to guarantee continuous and
uninterrupted supply of gas to Afam
VI for power generation into the
national grid.”
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