 The federal government has announced that the country's total domestic gas demand is currently at 4.482 billion standard cubic feet per day. It announced this in a statement issued in Abu Jabra, the Nigerian Metstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority on the new domestic gas demand requirement for Nigeria. The chief executive, Nigerian Metstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Farooq Ahmed, said the requirements were jointly determined by all relevant stakeholders. He said the requirement, which was transmitted to the Commission, showed that power sector was pegged at 2.324 billion standard cubic feet per day, while gas-based industries was 1.125 billion standard cubic feet per day, others include the Komashou sector, which was set at 1.034 billion standard cubic feet per day. While the total domestic gas demand requirement was 4.482 billion standard cubic feet per day. The statement quoted Farooq Ahmed as saying, the determined domestic gas demand requirement for the strategic sectors for the year 2022, as presented below, is transmitted to the NMDPRA for prescribing and allocating that domestic gas delivery obligation, among all lesses as stipulated in the Bertilum Industry Act 2021.