The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has spent 1.1 billion dollars on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project, delivering 70 per cent of the trunk welding.

The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, stated this while inspecting a section of the project at Ahoko Gbagyi village in Kogi State.

Kyari said the project is being funded solely by NNPC, assuring that gas would begin to flow through it by the end of the third quarter.

The AKK project spans 614 kilometres with a 15 kilometres Abuja terminal gas station, four gas stations, 22 block valve stations, pigging stations among others.