- Seplat Energy is investing heavily in domestic gas infrastructure, including pipeline, LPG, and CNG projects, to power homes, industries, and transportation while promoting cleaner energy alternatives across Nigeria.
- The company aims to boost gas production to over 1 Bcf/d by 2030, leveraging government incentives and addressing key challenges in power transmission, distribution, and sector liquidity to unlock new gas projects.
- Seplat’s ESG approach is tailored to African realities, emphasizing community collaboration, customized frameworks, and sustainable development that aligns with local socio-economic conditions and climate vulnerabilities.
Seplat Energy Plc, a leading Nigerian independent energy company, says that domestic gas remains the engine of prosperity for Nigeria and Africa in general – from powering homes, to fuelling industry and providing a cleaner alternative for cooking and transportation.
This informed the company’s heavy investment in gas processing capacity devoted to the domestic market, including the ANOH gas plant, which is expected to come on stream before the end of the year.
The Director, New Energy at Seplat, Mr. Okechukwu Mba, said this at the 2025 Africa Energy Week (AEW) held in Cape Town, South Africa.
Mba, who spoke during a panel discussion titled “Beyond Exports: Developing Commercially Viable Domestic Gas Markets”, said stakeholders need to ensure that the challenges in the gas-to-power value chain, from molecules at the wellhead to electrons in homes, are addressed for Nigeria to realize the goal of increased power supply to Nigerians.
He also emphasized the importance of a commercially viable power sector, which is critical to achieving growth in the domestic gas market.
He said: “Bankable anchor customers are needed to underpin the development of new gas projects, whilst identifying infrastructural challenges in power transmission and distribution, as well as the liquidity crises in the power sector, as two areas that require urgent attention in order to unlock new gas projects.”
Mba highlighted that Seplat Energy currently supplies gas to five (5) power stations in Nigeria, which underscores its commitment to the power sector, noting that gas is well-positioned to provide reliable and affordable base load energy to drive to economic growth.
According to Mba, Seplat Energy adopts a comprehensive approach to growing the domestic gas market. “Besides investments in pipeline gas projects, Seplat is also investing in Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) facilities,” he added.
In addition to the significant volumes of butane now supplied to the domestic market from its NGL plant in Bonny River Terminal, Seplat Energy also intends to commence delivery of LPG from its Sapele and ANOH gas plants before the end of the year. This, Mba said, will make Seplat Energy one of the leading suppliers of LPG, displacing biomass and providing a cleaner cooking fuel that will improve the health and living conditions of Nigerians.
He added that Seplat Energy’s investment in CNG was to make gas available to customers not currently connected to the domestic gas pipeline network.
The New Energy boss at Seplat stated that the company plans to take its operated gas production to over 1 Bcf/d by 2030, while noting that the recent incentives granted by the government to the gas sector will aid the achievement of this goal.
In a related development, the Director External Affairs & Social Performance, Seplat Energy, Chioma Afe, who featured in a panel discussion dubbed “Bureaucracy or Bridge? Tailoring Global ESG Approaches for African Realities”, said that in all the company’s moves in driving to drive access to reliable and affordable energy for Nigerians, ESG fundamentals are strongly upheld and practicalised.
According to her, the peculiarities of the Nigerian people and Africa at large remain very germane in implementing Seplat Energy’s ESG.
