Nigeria LNG begins production from Train 5

Jan. 11, 2006
Nigeria LNG has begun production from the fifth train at the Bonny LNG plant in Nigeria. It further reported that the first LNG cargo from Train 4, which began production November 2005, is being shipped to the Lake Charles, La., terminal in the US.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 11 -- Nigeria LNG Ltd. (NLNG) has begun production from the fifth train at the Bonny LNG plant in Nigeria. It further reported that the first LNG cargo from Train 4, which began production November 2005, is being shipped to the Lake Charles, La., terminal in the US.

Trains 4 and 5 will increase the company's LNG production capacity to more than 17 million tonnes/year.

NLNG will ship more than 14 million tonnes/year of LNG to Europe and more than 8 million tonnes/year of LNG to the US after Train 6 comes on stream in 2007.

It is planning a further expansion project to add more than 8 million tonnes/year of LNG capacity that will also target North America.

NLNG is a Nigerian joint venture of Nigeria National Petroleum Corp., 49%; Shell Gas BV, 25.6%; Total LNG Nigeria Ltd., 15%; and ENI International NA, 10.4%.