The Cement Manufacturer Association of Nigeria (CMAN) said the shortage in gas supply has compelled cement manufacturers in Nigeria to produce 36% lesser than their installed capacity.


The Association which has cement producers such as Dangote Cement Plc, Lafarge Africa Plc and BUA Group as its member with combined installed capacities of 31.25 million metric tonnes per annum recorded actual production of about 20 million metric tonnes.

Mr. Segun soyoye, Lafarge’s Plant Manager for Ewekoro plants 1 & 2, in Ogun State, in a report by Vanguardremarked that the situation has forced the company to go for local waste material such as used motor vehicle tyres, saw dust, palm kernel shaft and wood for firing its cement kilns.

In the same vein, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Director, Mr. Mordecai B. N. Ladan had earlier this year expressed worry that despite the significant natural gas reserves estimated at 192 Trillion Cubic Feet, TCF, the country was yet to fully benefit from her natural gas endowment.

It will interest you to know that Nigeria is among the top five natural gas producers in the world.

SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/gas-shortage-cut-cement-manufacturers-output-capacity-by-36/

Never knew they are related in anyway for production.
Thanks for the insight.. OP.

I hope this is not another reason they are planning to increase the price of cement as forex looks abit stable. If we look at the issue of the gas we might find out more than what would have been required for the manufacturers might have been lost through gas flaring. Nigeria always have one thing or the other that keep popping up to prevent it from the greatness that should have been achieved.


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Well, what so you expect when your President is on a medical leave to another country where he's spending our billions of naira which would have been better used to develop our gas manufacturing industries??

Nigeria is our country.

Pls check my signature for a quality and lasting jobs

We are having shortage f wht we are producing

KayDEAN:

you're promoting scam on nairaland okwia?

Modes whatyasay?

Gas shortage, dollar shortage, job shortage et al, everything is just getting short in Naija

Since they have an alternative they can maintain that for now.

The gas we have in Nigeria has only serves one purpose-FLARING. We flare it for fun.

Nigeria is among the highest natural gas producers in the world and we are still this poor and underdeveloped? chai!! kwereption!

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EmekaMD:
you're promoting scam on nairaland okwia?

Modes whatyasay?

Please don't say I'm a scam, not everyone is ur father

OK, another scam to inflate the cost of cement per bag. Nigerian business men n their legit scams

KayDEAN:
Please don't say I'm a scam, not everyone is ur father

keep deceiving yourself but I'll keep bursting u people until you people stop giving Nigeria bad names.

Children of hate will still being say oil will b useless. We Niger delta still have gas.

Oh

How much is a bag of cement now?

froz:
Never knew they are related in anyway for production.

Thanks for the insight.. OP.

Yes sir. Not only cement companies but any industries having such large capacity for whatever production they want to delve in. If you also have the money for natural gas to be brought to your house to power your transmission and give you electricity, your most highly welcome .