Chevron pushes back gas plant expansion

Pushed back: Chevron natural gas processing plant in Nigeria will wait three more years

Chevron has pushed back the expansion of a natural gas processing plant in Nigeria, originally slated for this year, by another three years, according to the US supermajor's annual report.



Phase 3B of the Escravos Gas Plant, designed to gather 120 million cubic feet of gas per day from eight offshore fields and then compress and transport it to onshore facilities, had already been delayed by a year.

Phase 3A will feed an $8.4 billion gas-to-liquids plant nearby when that starts up next year, having itself been delayed for three years and seen its estimated cost more than double, Reuters reported.

Construction continued on Phase B last year, Chevron said, and the project is now expected to be completed in 2016.

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