Nigeria LNG Ltd. (NLNG) has taken final investment decision (FID) for its Train 7 project at its Bonny liquefaction plant. The project will increase capacity of NLNG’s plant to 30 million tonnes/year (tpy) from 22 million tpy.
Award of contracts for engineering, procurement, and construction activities will follow closure of financing, and finalization of commercial agreements, expected in early 2020.
Construction will take about 5 years, with first LNG expected in 2025.
NLNG is joint venture of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (49%), Shell Gas BV (25.6%), Total Gaz Electricite Holdings France (15%), and Eni International NA NV S.ar.l (10.4%).