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Maintenance work on LNG train to last till April

By on February 25, 2016

The Nigeria LNG Limited says it is carrying out scheduled maintenance work on one of its six Liquefied Natural Gas trains.

The maintenance of the train would last till the first week of April, the company said on Monday.

“It started on January 25 and will run for 70 days and there are no production challenges,” the NLNG spokesperson, Anne-Marie Palmer-Ikuku, was quoted by Reuters as saying.

The Manager, Communications and Public Affairs, NLNG, Mr. Tony Okonedo, told our correspondent that the maintenance was being conducted on Train 1, which came on stream on February 27, 2000.

“The scheduled maintenance is not a big deal. It is like you have gone to service your car,” he said.

Asked what would be the implications of the ongoing maintenance, Okonedo said, “There is no implication.”

The NLNG’s six trains have the capacity to produce 22 million tonnes per annum of LNG, five MTPA of natural gas liquids (liquefied petroleum gas and condensate) from 3.5 billion (standard) cubic feet per day of natural gas intake.

The company has long-term supply contracts with Spain’s Repsol, Italy’s Enel, Britain’s BG Group, France’s Engie SA and Portugal’s Galp. It also sells on the spot market.

The NLNG’s near term expansion plans include the construction of a seventh train to complement the existing six-train structure.

According to the company, plans for building the Train 7 that will lift the total production capacity to 30 MTPA of LNG are currently progressing with some preliminary early site preparation work initiated. Further work awaits final investment decision by the shareholders.

The company is owned by four shareholders, namely, the Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (49 per cent); Shell (25.6 per cent); Total LNG Nigeria Limited (15 per cent) and Eni (10.4 per cent).
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