Gas for homes, businesses, vehicles and power.
MEA Gas takes LNG, CNG and LPG beyond the pipeline, and new energy to the forecourt.
- Gas reserve life at current output, against 59 for Oil
- 85 years
- Declared Gas reserves, 1 January 2026
- 215 tcf
- Gas output in 2025, and rising
- 7.4 bcf/d
- Gas demand expected by 2030
- 15 bcf/d
Why we are bullish.
How long Nigeria's reserves last
Years of supply at today's output.
- Gas: 85 years
- Oil: 59 years
NUPRC, 1 January 2026
Nigeria's Gas, today and 2030
Billion cubic feet a day.
- Output, 2025: 7.4
- Output target 2030: 12
- Demand expected 2030: 15
Decade of Gas programme
Midstream: LNG, CNG and LPG for customers beyond the grid.
MEA Gas is the Group’s midstream company. It is built to liquefy pipeline Gas and carry LNG and CNG to customers beyond the grid: a virtual pipeline by road, linked directly to MEA’s own fleet, stations and Go N' Fill.
- Mini-LNG plant, planned alongside the 614 km Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano pipeline, which will carry Gas to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano.
- LPG terminal, a planned receiving and storage terminal in Lagos.
- CNG, L-CNG and virtual pipeline delivery to customers not connected to a pipeline.
- At selected MEA stations: LPG, LNG and CNG are on sale, with L-CNG skids at the forecourt, so drivers, households and fleets can buy Gas where they buy fuel.
Leadership. Yusuf Kama, CEO and Managing Director, is a petroleum and natural gas engineer with 20+ years in Oil and Gas and the founder of Safegas, a pioneer in Nigerian LNG, LPG and propane infrastructure.
These are plans, subject to the feasibility study and approvals.
Taking Gas from the south to the north.
- 614 km
- Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano pipeline, 40 inches wide
- Up to 2.2 bcf/d
- Gas the pipeline can carry
- 3
- Main off-take points: Abuja, Kaduna and Kano
- 1,900+
- Nigerians directly employed in construction
The AKK pipeline ties the Gas fields of the south to the north of the country. Nigeria holds ~215 tcf of Gas, yet much of the north has had no Gas supply. The pipeline has been built, and the next step is for Gas to start flowing. When it does, the benefits will reach well beyond the pipe itself.
Power
Gas for power plants in the north, so more of the grid runs on the fuel behind most of Nigeria’s electricity.
Industry
With reliable Gas, idle factories along the corridor, such as textile plants in Kaduna, can switch their machines back on, and new ones can open.
Jobs and communities
Construction employed more than 1,900 Nigerians directly and worked with over 240 communities along the route.
Cleaner energy
More Gas used at home means less Gas flared in the Niger Delta.
Beyond the pipe
Our mini-LNG plant alongside the pipeline can send Gas by road, as a virtual pipeline, to customers the pipeline does not reach.
What we plan to deliver, and when.
| Project | Timing |
|---|---|
| Storage terminal: acquisition of an existing terminal in another location in Nigeria | By Q1 2027 |
| Mini-LNG plant, along the AKK pipeline: feasibility study | February 2027 |
| LPG terminal in Lagos (20,000 MT) | By Q1 2028 |
| Mini-LNG plant: launch | 18 months after the feasibility study |
The ground is already ours: we have secured 20 hectares of land along the Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano pipeline for the mini-LNG plant.
Cheaper and cleaner than diesel and petrol.
When the grid cannot meet demand, most Nigerian businesses and many households make their own electricity. Nigerians spent ~₦16.5 trillion on self-generated power in 2023, mostly on diesel and petrol. Gas gives you the same power for less.
- Cheaper per kilowatt-hour: Gas-fired captive power against a diesel generator
- ~68%
- Cheaper per kilowatt-hour: Gas against a petrol generator
- ~36%
- Cheaper: CNG against petrol for vehicles
- ~40%
- People in Nigeria without clean cooking
- 175 million+
What a unit of electricity costs
Naira per kilowatt-hour, Nigeria, 2024.
- Grid, Band A: ₦206
- Gas-fired captive power: ~₦290
- Petrol generator: ~₦450
- Diesel generator: ₦900 and above
Bayo Adelabu, Minister of Power, 2024, as reported by Prime Business Africa
Businesses and factories
Switch a generator or captive plant to Gas and each unit of power costs around a third less than petrol and about two-thirds less than diesel.
Households
LPG for cooking is cleaner than firewood and kerosene, and cylinders are close at hand at MEA stations and through Go N' Fill.
Drivers and fleets
Fill up with CNG or L-CNG at the forecourt and every kilometre costs less.
Savings are our calculation from the Minister of Power’s 2024 cost figures (~₦290, ₦450 and ₦900 or more per kilowatt-hour). CNG saving: NNPC Retail, July 2024. Clean-cooking figure: Federal Ministry of Power, 2024.
Reliable electricity for everyone makes an economy competitive.
Gas already generates ~80% of the electricity on Nigeria’s grid, yet the grid delivered only 4,000 to 5,400 megawatts in 2024 for more than 200 million people. Feed more Gas to the power plants, and electricity becomes steadier and cheaper for homes, hospitals, factories and offices.
Power plants
Gas is the fuel behind most of the megawatts on the grid. Every megawatt added helps the whole economy.
Competitive industry
Factories that pay less for power can price their products lower, compete with imports and sell more abroad.
Jobs and growth
Reliable power lets small businesses open longer, keeps food cold and makes it possible to build new factories.
Power for everyone
Where there is no pipeline, LNG and CNG by road bring Gas to towns and industrial sites the grid does not reach.
Nigeria is a Gas country, and the best of its Gas is still ahead.
- 215 tcf
- Declared Gas reserves, 1 January 2026
- 85 years
- Gas reserve life at current output, against 59 for Oil
- 15 billion cu ft a day
- Gas demand expected by 2030
- 7.4 billion cu ft a day
- Gas output in 2025, and rising
On 1 January 2026, Nigeria's regulator, the NUPRC, declared reserves of 215.19 trillion cubic feet of Gas and 37.5 billion barrels of Oil and condensate. In energy terms the two are of a similar size, but the Gas will last far longer: ~85 years at today's output, against ~59 for Oil. Gas reserves grew in 2025 through new discoveries, while Oil reserves fell. NNPC has set a target to lift reserves towards 600 tcf.
Nigeria's Decade of Gas programme is gearing up for a big step forward. More than 20 projects are expected to add ~4.6 billion cubic feet a day, supporting a production target of 12 billion cubic feet a day by 2030, while demand from homes, industry, power and export is expected to reach ~15 billion cubic feet a day. The government also plans to distribute five million LPG cylinders to rural women by 2030 for clean cooking.
- Abundant: one of Africa’s largest Gas endowments, with more discoveries still to come.
- Cleaner: Gas burns cleaner than diesel and petrol, and many see it as the fuel that carries us through the energy transition.
- Closer to home: Gas produced in Nigeria means less reliance on imported liquid fuels, and it can be cheaper to run.
- Underused: much of Nigeria lies far from a Gas pipeline, and that is the gap MEA Gas is built to fill by road.
New energy and power
EV charging points are starting to appear at selected MEA stations. Power-as-a-service brings solar and power solutions to stations and commercial customers in phases. And with L-CNG skids, customers can buy LNG or CNG right at the forecourt.
Talk to us about Gas supply, or partner with us on projects.
“The Stone Age came to an end not because we had lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have lack of oil.”