Abia State is one of the nine (9) oil and gas producing states in Nigeria and a member of the Niger Delta Oil and Gas Producing Region, under Niger-Delta Development Commission (Establishment etc) Act 2000 Act No 6 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. As a member of this elite club, the State has the

Generally, the oil and gas industry is structured into three main streams, the Upstream, the Midstream, and the Downstream as depicted in Figure 9.  The Upstream industry, also known as the Exploration and Production sector (E&P) finds and produces crude oil and natural gas using specialized technologies to search for and eventually win and cart away

Major oil and gas pipelines that traverse Abia State include the Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) 20km domestic gas pipeline expansion project designed to connect and supply gas to Agbor Hill, Ossioma and Araria industrial zones. Also, Nestoil group, an indigenous Engineering, Procurement and Construction Company, EPC, had completed the construction and commissioning of a set