The federal government says Gas production in Nigeria is growing from seven point five billion cubic feet per day to twelve bcf per day.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, disclosed this to journalists at a recent event in Lagos.

Ekpo said his major focus during his second year in office will be to ramp up gas production and turn Nigeria into a gas economy, in line with the Decade of Gas initiative.

Since the Federal Government adopted gas as the country’s transition fuel, there have been concerns about how sustainable gas production in Nigeria is.

However, the gas minister expressed optimism that more gas would be produced, especially as some international oil companies divested to deep water.

Nigeria’s reserves of associated gas and non-associated gas stand at two hundred and nine point two six trillion cubic feet, according to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission.