Despite boasting of a 206 trillion standard cubic feet of gas reserves and topping major countries, Nigeria’s per capita consumption of gas is the lowest in the sub-Saharan African region, Ministers of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylvia has said. He stated this at the 2021 yearly sub-Saharan African Oil and Gas Conference tagged” The future of Upstream and Deepwater Development, Advancing Digitization and Gas Development Options in Sub-Saharan Africa” and organized by Energy & Corporate Africa. With the rapidly growing population of Nigeria, expected to outnumber that of the USA in about 20 years, Sylvia feared that the upsurge in the continent’s population could be challenging if not treated as an opportunity.
Source: https://guardian.ng/business-services/gas-consumption-lowest-in-nigeria-despite-206-tcf-reserves/