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Platts noted, though, that the spokesman’s words TLTC’s owners are Helios Investment Part-
were in line with previous reports indicating that ners and Africa Infrastructure Investment
Tema LNG would take delivery of its first cargo Managers, both based in the UK. The partners
by the end of the first quarter of 2021. have awarded a contract for the operation and
The terminal’s FRU and FSU have both been maintenance of the terminal to Reganosa of
moored at a new jetty built by West Africa Gas. Spain. Under this contract, Reganosa must also
The regasification unit is capable of handling operate and maintain the 16-inch (406-mm)
1.7mn tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG, and the riser, subsea pipeline and onshore 6-km pipe-
storage vessel boosts the facility’s total storage line used to pump the regasified LNG to onshore
capacity to 145,000-160,000 cubic metres. facilities. ™

Train 7 will not be the end of expansion work at NLNG (Photo: NLNG)
Attah urges NLNG to consider

expansion on a larger scale

NIGERIA NIGERIA LNG (NLNG) should consider more projects, he added. NLNG’s Train 7 project calls
ambitious plans for expansion, according to for raising the Bonny Island plant’s capacity
Tony Attah, the consortium’s managing director. from 22.5mn tpy to 30mn tpy, he noted, while
Speaking at a recent industry conference Qatar’s North field expansion project will oper-
hosted by the Nigerian Gas Association (NGA), ate on a different scale, adding nearly 30mn
Attah reported that NLNG had already bene- tpy of new capacity and bringing the country’s
fited the country’s economy by generating more total production capacity up from 77mn tpy to
than $100bn in revenues, $38bn in tax receipts 126mn tpy.
and $35bn in dividends. These figures are sure to Qatar’s ambitious moves indicate that NLNG
grow once the group completes the Train 7 pro- ought to aim higher, Attah commented. To that
ject, adding another production train to its gas end, he said, the consortium is ready to work
liquefaction plant on Bonny Island and raising with Nigeria’s government to support efforts
its overall production capacity to 30mn tonnes to expand both gas production and domestic
per year (tpy), he said. gasification.
Nevertheless, he said, Nigeria – and NLNG, “We offer ourselves as partners to the gov-
its only LNG producer – should learn from the ernment, but most importantly, we say, we are
example set by Qatar. available. If you can produce the gas, we can take
He noted that the Middle Eastern state had it,” he declared.
begun producing LNG in 1997, just two years Train 7 will not be the end of expansion
before NLNG’s first production train came work at NLNG. The Nigerian government has
online. Since then, he said, Qatar has become said before that the Bonny Island liquefaction
the biggest LNG producer in the world, raising plant may eventually have as many as 12 trains
its total LNG production capacity to 77mn tpy. in operation, and Mele Kyari, the group man-
Nigeria, by contrast, has only pushed output up aging director of Nigerian National Petroleum
to 22.5mn tpy. Corp. (NNPC), told reporters late last year that
The gap between the two countries is evi- NLNG’s shareholders were already holding dis-
dent in the difference between their expansion cussions on the construction of Train 8.

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