By Christie U. Omonigho
- Project Delivered Without Any Lost Time Incident across 17.5-million-man hours
- To Operate With Zero Routine Flares.
- With 16MW Power Plant and Other Supporting Facilities
Energy Window International (Media) – Seplat Energy Plc (“Seplat” or the “Company”), a leading other Nigerian independent energy companies with listing on both the Nigerian Exchange Limited and London Stock Exchange, says it is pleased to announce that their 300 MMscfd ANOH gas project has achieved its first gas.
The stride followed the completion of the 11km Indorama gas export pipeline and receipt of regulatory approval from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). Seplat said ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC) on Friday 16th January 20266 commenced gas supply to Indorama, “under a firm and interruptible offtake Gas Sales Agreements” (GSAs). The flow of gas was enabled by bringing online four upstream wells which had been on standby since November 2025.
Energy Window International (Media) had learnt from Seplat that since first gas, the wet gas production has been stabilizing, delivering 40-52 MMscfd of processed gas directly from the ANOH gas plant to the Indorama Petrochemical Plant. According to the Company’s email statement, condensate production has reached 2.0-2.5 kboepd and is expected to increase with gas production as the plant ramps up to design capacity.
The Company added that preparations were underway to initiate sales of processed gas to the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) with an offtake agreement structured on an interruptible basis to support the gas plant to further scale production towards full design capacity of 300MMscfd. Meanwhile, and according to Seplat, the construction of the OB3 pipeline export route by Nigerian Gas Infrastructure Company (NGIC), originally designated as the primary channel for ANOH gas supply to the domestic market, has resumed and a revised date for completion announced much later.
The ANOH gas plant, Seplat said was developed by AGPC, an incorporated joint venture between it and the NGIC, with the integrated plant consisting of two 150 MMscfd gas processing units, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) recovery units, condensate stabilization units, a 16MW power plant and other supporting facilities, and has been built to operate with zero routine flares.
Across the unitized field of OML 53 and OML 21, the ANOH gas plant, Seplat says, will unlock an estimated 4.6 Tcf condensate rich gas resource base. Its working interest 2P reserves in the unitized field, as booked at year end 2024, stood at 0.8 Tcf. Seplat says it will derive value from two distinct income streams: wet gas sales from OML 53 to the ANOH gas plant, and dividends from its 50% equity ownership in AGPC.
“The LPG produced from ANOH, combined with the LPG production at Sapele and the Bonny River Terminal (BRT), will make Seplat a leading supplier of clean cooking fuel to the domestic market. In addition, the ANOH gas plant will process the flared gas from the Ohaji field, enabling Seplat to achieve its onshore End of Routine Flaring programme, a key commercial and sustainability initiative for the company”, Seplat said.
The ANOH gas plant the company said, has been developed without a single recordable Lost Time Incident (LTI) across 17.5-million-man hours, a testament to the focus of the whole team on safe and secure operations.
Roger Brown, Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Energy, commenting on the feat said:
“ANOH is the first of the seven critical gas development projects identified by Federal Government of Nigeria to commence operations. It is an important strategic project for Seplat, our partner NGIC, and Nigeria as a whole. It has taken a significant amount of commitment and hard work to complete the project in a part of the onshore Niger Delta with limited gas pipeline infrastructure, and we are extremely proud of this achievement. This is our third major gas processing facility onshore and increases our Joint Venture gross gas processing capacity onshore to over 850 MMscfd.
“ANOH will provide material income streams for Seplat, reduce our carbon intensity and contribute significantly to the 2030 production target of 200 kboepd, set at our recent CMD. It will also increase energy access for Nigerians in terms of both power and clean cooking fuel for the local communities, while advancing delivery of our mission to support economic prosperity in Nigeria.”