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acquisition through a deliberate effort at technol- ogy transfer,” he stated.
NLNG’s largest shareholder is state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), which owns a stake of 49%. The remaining 51% of equity in the consortium is divided between Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands, 25.6%), Total (France, 15%) and Eni (Italy, 10.4%).
The four-member consortium began pro- ducing LNG in 1999 and already has six produc- tion trains in place at its gas liquefaction plant on Bonny Island. These trains have a combined capacity of 22.5mn tonnes per year (tpy). The
addition of Train 7 will increase the total by 7.2mn tpy to 30mn tpy, with the new production facility adding 4.2mn tpy and the debottleneck- ing of existing trains contributing another 3.4mn tpy.
Mele Kyari, NNPC’s group managing direc- tor, declared in late 2019 that NLNG would con- tinue to expand after the completion of Train 7.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the consortium to build another five production trains, bringing the total number up to 12, he said.
RENEWABLES
Enel searches for partner for African green business
POLAND
ENEL is continuing its search for a financial partner to buy a 50% interest in its 2,750-MW African renewable business in a bid to strengthen its green interest across the continent.
Enel’s renewables unit Enel Green Power said that its search for a partner began before the cur- rent coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, Bloomberg reported.
The Italian company plans to increase its renewable capacity to 60% by 2022. Enel is adding as much as 3.6 GW of new capacity in recently accessed and new markets within the next two years, mainly in Africa and Asia.
Enel Green Power is already one of South Africa’s leading independent power producers (IPPs) and has 1,200 MW of wind and solar plants across the country. It has another 700 MW at five projects in development.
It operates the 10-MW Upington and the 82.5-MW Adams solar projects in the North- ern Cape, the 82.5-MW Pulida solar project in Free State Province, the 66-MW Tom Burke
project in Limpopo Province and the 82.5-MW Paleishuewel project in the Western Cape. It also operates the 88-MW Nojoli and 111-MW Gib- son Bay wind farms in the Eastern Cape.
In Zambia, it owns and operates the 34-MW Ngoye solar plant. It is also building 850 MW of wind capacity at sites in Morocco, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Enel said that in 2022, the average annual growth of renewable energy in Africa will be about 8 GW, with solar photovoltaic (PV) playing the main part, with about 15 GW to be installed in the coming years. Hydropower should reach around 13 GW in production, fol- lowed by wind, with 10 GW.
Enel Green Power now operates 46 GW of wind, solar, geothermal and hydro capacity across the globe.
The company also takes a leading role in renewAfrica, a European trade body that aims to develop attractive funding options for European investment in African renewables projects.
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