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NCDMB says Nigeria should market

its gas to LNG-to-power projects

LNG-TO-POWER SIMBI Wabote, the executive secretary of the domestic market, as it produced LPG at its gas
Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring liquefaction plant on Bonny Island. “Today,
Board (NCDMB), said at the Gastech conference the only thing we off-take from NLNG is LPG,
in Milan last week that his country was keen to which is also part of the by-products,” he said.
explore the possibility of becoming a supplier of “Most of the domestic LPG [supply] is produced
LNG for LNG-to-power projects. by NLNG today. That informs [the consortium’s]
Thus far, Wabote noted, Nigeria’s sole LNG commitment to the domestic market.”
producer has not made any particular effort Wabote was speaking as NLNG’s managing
to target LNG-to-power projects specifically. director, Philip Mshelbia, stressed that the group
While the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) consortium was committed to making more LPG available
does sell some of its output to operators of natu- for domestic consumption. On the sidelines of
ral gas-fired thermal power plants (TPPs), these the same conference, he said that NLNG was
buyers are not seeking to import their own LNG working towards the goal of reserving 100% of its
but rather to access regasified LNG imports, he LPG production for Nigeria’s domestic market,
explained. NLNG should change its strategy so in line with the government’s efforts to promote
that it can make inroads into a hitherto untapped the risk of safer and less polluting fuels for home
market, he declared. cooking, heating and power generation.
“We have not invested enough in utilising Mshelbia also pointed out that by increasing
LNG for power,” he was quoted as saying by The yields of LPG, which is a by-product of gas liq-
Guardian. “The discussions have always been uefaction, NLNG was providing support to the
around investing in power plants that use natural Nigerian government’s campaign to promote
gas, not liquefied natural gas. The potential for the utilisation of associated gas as a substitute
LNG-to-power is huge. If those investments are for flaring. Higher associated gas utilisation
there and NLNG sees off-takers, they would sell. rates benefit Nigeria by bringing pollution levels
The business is to sell the LNG that is produced down and monetising resources that were pre-
and not to keep them.” viously left unused, he was quoted as saying by
The NCDMB head also noted that NLNG The Guardian.™
had become a major supplier of LPG to Nigeria’s

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