ナイジェリアにおける持続可能なガス処理と流通：石油産業法とグローバルなエネルギー転換経路の整合

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🔬研究者:Provides empirical evidence on policy contradictions in gas development and transition pathways.

🏢実務担当者:Highlights regulatory and financial risks for gas infrastructure investments in Nigeria.

🏛政策担当者:Offers policy recommendations for integrating methane abatement and stranded asset management into energy legislation.

The most extensive legal reform of Nigeria\'s oil and gas industry in 60 years is represented by the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021. The PIA\'s provisions for gas commercialization and distribution present a paradox: they aim to maximize gas exploitation as a transition fuel while committing to net-zero aspirations under the Energy Transition Plan (ETP), at a time when global capital markets are increasingly disciplining fossil fuel investments through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. The alignment, or lack thereof between Nigeria\'s energy transformation objectives and the PIA\'s framework for gas processing and distribution is critically examined in this essay. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach that includes quantitative analysis of gas flaring data (2010–2025), econometric modeling of domestic gas utilization trends, comparative policy analysis of fiscal regimes, and semi-structured interviews with industry regulators and operators, the study finds significant structural contradictions. Methane leakage, flaring penalties, and the long-term asset stranding risk associated with gas infrastructure investments with 30-year economic lives are not sufficiently addressed by the PIA, even though it introduces fiscal incentives for gas development through the Host Communities Development Trust (HCDT) framework and the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). According to the analysis, the present fiscal architecture incentivizes gas-to-power and gas-to-industry pathways without adequately integrating carbon pricing or methane intensity reduction. The article argues that without a fundamental recalibration of the PIA\'s implementation framework, specifically the introduction of a methane abatement levy, the alignment of gas processing licenses with lifecycle emissions accounting, and the creation of a stranded asset risk management fund, Nigeria risks locking into carbon-intensive infrastructure that will become economically unviable before the end of its technical lifespan.

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