Three Dangote subsidiaries sign expanded gas purchase agreements as Nigeria rolls out its Gas Master Plan 2026
Three of Nigeria’s largest industrial operations — Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Dangote Fertiliser, and Dangote Cement — have signed expanded Gas Sales and Purchase Agreements with subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to secure the energy they need to scale up production. The agreements were signed with Nigerian Gas Marketing Limited and NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company Limited and are expected to support Dangote Group’s Vision 2030 across its industrial portfolio.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery CEO David Bird described the agreements as a major milestone, saying the refinery is positioning itself to scale operations sustainably by locking in a reliable gas supply amid rising domestic energy demand. For Dangote Cement, Group Managing Director Arvid Pathak called the deals critical to the company’s transition to cleaner energy — particularly its drive toward compressed natural gas as autogas — while also meeting growing demand from expanded production.
At Dangote Fertiliser, the gas arrangements are expected to underpin capacity expansion projects, given that natural gas is the primary feedstock for fertiliser production.
The deals land alongside the NNPC’s freshly launched Gas Master Plan 2026, which the company’s CEO Bashir Ojulari described as a bold, execution-focused roadmap to unlock Nigeria’s gas potential. Nigeria holds roughly 210 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves with upside potential of up to 600 trillion cubic feet. The plan targets national gas production of 10 billion cubic feet per day by 2027 and 12 billion cubic feet per day by 2030, while catalysing over $60 billion in new investment across the oil and gas value chain.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, called the Gas Master Plan “a deliberate shift towards a more integrated, commercially driven, and execution-focused gas sector” and highlighted its alignment with the government’s Decade of Gas Initiative.
Source: premiumtimesng.com