The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited , has shifted the delivery date for the $700m Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben gas pipeline project from March 2024 to August. The Minister for Petroleum Resources for States Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, says the project would now be completed and commissioned latest by August. The NNPCL says the River Niger Crossing operation has been the major impediment to the completion of the strategic OB3 Gas Pipeline for over three years, due to failure of the various technologies deployed to achieve the construction of the 48-inch pipe under the river bed between Ndoni in Rivers State and Aboh in Delta State.