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The company is still evaluating security condi- Tripoli, and the Libyan National Army (LNA),
tions at Es Sider, Mellitah, Ras Lanuf and Zaw- led by Khalifa Haftar.
iya, but Mellitah is able to export gas condensate, The company went from extracting more
according to previous reports. than 900,000 bpd of crude at the beginning of
NOC has been working to bring produc- the year to seeing yields sink below 100,000 bpd
tion capacity back online since the signing of after January 18, when the LNA and its allies
an agreement between the UN-backed Gov- forced the closure of the Mediterranean termi-
ernment of National Accord (GNA), based in nals and other infrastructure. ™

NLNG sees LPG production rising this year

NIGERIA NIGERIA LNG (NLNG), the four-member can commercialise these resources, it will be
consortium that operates a natural gas liquefac- able to generate more electricity for delivery to
tion plant on Bonny Island, is aiming to produce domestic business and residential consumers,
some 350,000 tonnes of LPG in 2020, up from he stated. This will help reduce pollution whilst
275,000 tonnes last year. also speeding up the pace of industrialisation,
According to Adeleye Falade, NLNG’s gen- he commented.
eral manager for production, LPG output has NLNG was formed more than 20 years ago
risen steadily since the consortium began com- and has been producing LNG since 1999. Equity
mercial operations in 1999. Initial production in the consortium is split between NNPC (49%),
levels amounted to just 75,000 tonnes per year, Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands, 25.6%),
but NLNG is now in a position to turn out much Total (France, 15%) and Eni (Italy, 10.4%).
larger amounts of LPG, he said at a recent webi- The group has already built six production
nar organised by ADIPEC Energy Dialogue. trains with a combined capacity of 22.5mn
Falade attributed the rise in production to tonnes per year (tpy) at its gas liquefaction
the success of efforts to promote domestic con- plant. Earlier this year, it took a final investment
sumption of LPG as a safe and environmentally decision (FID) on the construction of another
friendly fuel. “When we first started pushing liq- production train that will push total output up
uid petroleum gas (LPG), which is cooking gas, to 30mn tpy. The new unit, which will be known
into the Nigerian market, we were only doing as Train 7, will add 4.2mn tpy of new capacity,
75,000 tonnes per annum. Today, as at last year, while the debottlenecking of existing trains will
we did 275,000 tonnes that we pushed into the contribute another 3.4mn tpy. ™
market,” he said. “This year our target is 350,000
tonnes, and we are very much on our way to
achieving it. The more we push cooking gas, the
more we fight deforestation and deal with emis-
sions, especially harmful ones.”
NLNG is joining the government in promot-
ing LPG in line with a wider campaign to expand
Nigeria’s gas industry, he added. The West Afri-
can country has 200 trillion cubic feet (5.7 tril-
lion cubic metres) of natural and associated
gas in proven reserves, and its fields may hold
another 600 tcf (16.99 tcm), he said. If Nigeria NLNG is promoting domestic consumption of LNG (Photo: File)

Angolan oil output up slightly in August

ANGOLA ANGOLA’S National Agency of Petroleum, The agency also noted that production of
Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) said last week that liquid hydrocarbons – that is, crude oil, gas con-
the country had seen crude oil production rise densate and LPG – had amounted to 39.958mn
slightly in the month of August. barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in August, equiv-
In a press release, ANPG stated that Angolan alent to 1.289mn boe per day (boepd). It did not
oilfields had yielded a total of 39.265mn bar- provide a comparative figure from last year.
rels of crude in August, equivalent to 1.265mn ANPG went on to say that Angola had
barrels per day. This was 0.42% above the figure extracted some 94.228mn cubic feet (2.668mn
of 1.26mn bpd reported for the same month of cubic metres) of associated gas, equivalent to
2019, it said. 3.04 mcf (86,083 cubic metres) per day. .

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