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The project aligns with Tanzania’s national High-5 development priority, which is being
Development Vision 2025 and its Second Five- implemented through the institution’s New Deal
Year Development Plan (2016/17-2020/21) on Energy for Africa strategy.
and complements other regional initiatives, Henry Batchi Baldeh, director of the Bank’s
including the North West Grid 400-kV Nyaka- Power Systems Development Department, noted
nazi-Kigoma transmission line project, which that the project was “one of the flagship physical
the Bank is financing in parallel with the South infrastructure investments in the Government
Korea Economic Development Co-operation of the Tanzania’s Development Vision 2025 and
Fund. Tanzania’s current Five-Year Development Plan,
The Malagarasi Project will also directly con- and that it will increase the share of renewable
tribute to the Bank’s Light Up & Power Africa energy in Tanzania’s energy mix.”
GAS-FIRED GENERATION
Local content to account for at least
55% of work on NLNG’s Train 7
NIGERIA NIGERIA LNG (NLNG) intends to rely on local would not be shut down. He pushed hard to the
providers for at least 55% of the work that will be extent that [the] contract was signed against all
done on the Train 7 expansion project, according odds,” he commented.
to Tony Attah, the managing director and CEO Attah also pointed out that the expansion
of the consortium. project would be a boon to the Nigerian econ-
Speaking at a reception held by the Junior omy. “Train 7 means 12,000 jobs directly and,
Chambers International (JCI) earlier this week, based on the board’s calculation, 40,000 addi-
Attah said it made sense to maximise local con- tional jobs indirectly,” he remarked.
tent in the scheme, which calls for the construc- He added: “On top of that, we are talking
tion of a seventh production train at NLNG’s 55% of that scope will be domiciled and domes-
natural gas liquefaction plant on Bonny Island. ticated, and Nigerians will be directly involved in
Nigerian companies and Nigerian workers have more than half of the scope of this particular pro-
improved their capacity and are able to handle ject, and we are talking of over $10bn in terms of
high-end technical projects such as this one, he the overall Train 7 investment.”
said. NLNG was formed more than 20 years ago
The NLNG chief also thanked the Nigeria and has been producing LNG since 1999. Equity
Content Development and Monitoring Board in the consortium is split between state-owned
(NCDMB) for helping to push the Train 7 ini- Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC),
tiative forward and singled out the board’s exec- with 49%; Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands),
utive secretary, Simbi Wabote, for praise. He with 25.6%; Total (France), with 15%, and Eni
said Wabote, who was the guest of honour at the (Italy), with 10.4%.
JCI reception, had taken all the steps needed to The group has already built six production
ensure the launch of the project in May of this trains with a combined production capacity of
year, at a time when the global oil and gas indus- 22.5mn tonnes per year at its gas liquefaction
try had scaled back its operations in response to plant. Earlier this year, it took a final investment
the fall in demand that had followed the corona- decision (FID) on the construction of the sev-
virus (COVID-19) pandemic. enth production train, which will push total out-
“[When] the contract was signed on May put up to 30mn tpy. The new unit will add 4.2mn
13 this year, that was right in the middle of the tpy of new capacity, and the debottlenecking of
COVID-19 situation when the entire world was existing trains will contribute another 3.4mn
at a standstill ... The world was shut down, but the tpy.
executive secretary was determined that Train 7
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