Nigeria’s first large-scale, project-financed independent power plant – the 459 459MW capacity Azura-Edo IPP located in Benin City, Edo State, the city started generating electricity to the national grid. This was following the successful completion of the first-fire on one of its generation turbines – the 153MW and subsequent synchronisation of same to the national grid. The plant is comprised of three Siemens turbines, each of which is capable of producing 153MW.
Tests on the second turbine will begin at the end of January 2018, with the tests on the third turbine commencing at the beginning of March 2018.
The commissioning process will then conclude at the end of April 2018 when the plant is scheduled to reach full commercial operations. The project, whose construction began in January 2016 was anticipated to reach completion in December 2018.
But with the vast bulk of the work already completed, the project is currently more than 7 months ahead of schedule.
It has also become a standard-bearer for good health and safety practices, having clocked up more than 4 million man-hours of work without a single lost-time injury.
NGC has partnered with Azura in the construction of the gas spur line that connects the Escravos Pipeline System to the power plant and in the construction of the pressure reducing and metering station.
This milestone also marks the historic completion of an industry chain where all the links are forged together through commercially negotiated contracts.
Siemens and Julius Berger built the plant under the terms of the EPC Contract.
The gas that was used to generate today’s electricity was supplied by Seplat PLC and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company in accordance with the Gas Supply & Purchase Agreement.
NGC transported the gas to the site in line with the Gas Transportation Agreement.
