Nigeria Is Building Africa's LARGEST Gas City
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Inside Africa's Largest Gas City — Rising in the Niger Delta
Nigeria holds Africa's largest natural gas reserves — and for decades, it sold that gas raw while importing the fertilizer, fuel, and plastics made from it. Then it decided to change the equation.
On a stretch of coast in the Niger Delta sits Ogidigben: 2,700 hectares set aside for the Gas Revolution Industrial Park, designed to be the largest gas-based industrial city on the continent. Fertilizer plants. Petrochemicals. Methanol. Aluminium smelters. A deep-sea port.
But this project has died before. After the 2015 groundbreaking, it sat for nearly a decade — stalled by community disputes, security crises, and investors who walked away. Some called it a fraud.
This is the story of how Nigeria refused to bury it, rebuilt the politics from the ground up, and assembled a $20 billion construction deal that made it the single largest Belt and Road destination on Earth — bending the world's biggest infrastructure programme toward a goal Nigeria set for itself.
#Nigeria #Infrastructure #NigerDelta
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They are literally burning what what have then buying it from others😢
Nigeria Is Building Africa's LARGEST Gas City
Waka Droid Documentary
40,311 views
Inside Africa's Largest Gas City — Rising in the Niger Delta
Nigeria holds Africa's largest natural gas reserves — and for decades, it sold that gas raw while importing the fertilizer, fuel, and plastics made from it. Then it decided to change the equation.
On a stretch of coast in the Niger Delta sits Ogidigben: 2,700 hectares set aside for the Gas Revolution Industrial Park, designed to be the largest gas-based industrial city on the continent. Fertilizer plants. Petrochemicals. Methanol. Aluminium smelters. A deep-sea port.
But this project has died before. After the 2015 groundbreaking, it sat for nearly a decade — stalled by community disputes, security crises, and investors who walked away. Some called it a fraud.
This is the story of how Nigeria refused to bury it, rebuilt the politics from the ground up, and assembled a $20 billion construction deal that made it the single largest Belt and Road destination on Earth — bending the world's biggest infrastructure programme toward a goal Nigeria set for itself.
#Nigeria #Infrastructure #NigerDelta
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