BIOGAS PLANT FOR AGBOR DELTA STATE

Dateline: Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria. May 6 2013.
Report by Joshua Ndobu

Agbor, the biggest town of Northern Delta State will soon host a novel investment in the area as a bio-energy firm, BioPower Nigeria Limited prepares to invest N7million on a locally fabricated biogas plant in Ime-Obi along the expressway of Agbor town. The firm plans to harness the abundant animal droppings and waste generated from the many poultry and other livestock firms in the neighbourhood. 

Agbor is home to Phed Breeder Farms, one of the largest poultry companies in Nigeria, and numerous other poultry and piggery farms. Agbor also thrives as the biggest meat processing town in Delta and Edo states with large consignment of cattle, goats and rams and including donkeys transported there by heavy laden trucks daily.
Alhaji Abdulkadir Idris one of the cattle traders at the thriving Agbor Secretariat cattle market claims that nearly 100 animals are slaughtered daily at the market, one of three abattoirs in the town. He said that over 300 donkeys are slaughtered in the abattoirs in Agbor daily with innumerable sheep and goats. 

Biogas model design

Mr. Stevens Umore of BioPower and Project Manager of the proposed Biogas facility expressed the confidence that the company can harvest 20 metric tonnes of bio-waste daily in the town and its environs and that will be more than enough to serve their needs to produce 500 cubic metres of biogas and  more than 10 tonnes of bio-fertilizer daily. The biogas will be sold to the public in metal gas bottles at half the prevailing price of bottled LPG gas.

Mr. Umore said that the land for the plant has been acquired and that plant fabrication and installations will commence in September and test-runs of the fabricated plant will start early in January next year.