Gbaran-Ubie integrated oil and gas project

The Gbaran-Ubie project began producing oil and gas in June 2010. It achieved peak gas production of up to one billion standard cubic feet of gas a day in early 2011, equivalent to about a quarter of the gas currently produced for export and domestic use in Nigeria. It will also produce more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

The project incorporates five oil and gas fields spread over a 650 km² area of Bayelsa and Rivers states. It has taken five years to build. It involved drilling more than 30 new wells and building a central processing facility to treat both oil and gas.

Most of the gas will supply the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas plant at Bonny Island. Here it will be cooled and turned into a liquid before export by ship around the world. The rest of the gas will supply local power stations in the Niger Delta. The oil will be exported from SPDC’s Bonny crude oil terminal.

The project has created jobs and brought benefits to Nigerian companies and local communities. By the end of 2009, the project had spent over one billion dollars on Nigerian goods and services. At the peak of construction in 2008, almost 6,000 people worked on the project – almost all Nigerian, many hired from local communities and trained. The plant will create more than 300 permanent jobs. And the project will connect around 200,000 people in local communities to the electricity grid for the first time.

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Shell companies in Nigeria: the Gbaran Ubie integrated oil and gas project.

The Gbaran-Ubie project began delivering oil and gas to customers in June 2010. When fully ramped up it will be able to produce up to one billion standard cubic feet of gas a day for export, to generate electricity for Nigerians, and to reduce flaring in the Niger Delta.