Regional Focus: Nigeria moves to expand its liquefaction capacity

S. Oirere, Contributing Writer The award in July 2018 of long-awaited contracts for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of Nigeria’s Train 7 gas plant expansion project to two consortia is the country’s latest attempt to address the enormous challenges of gas flaring and gas shortages for power plants and domestic consumption. The contract for the 8.5-MMtpy Train 7 at Nigeria’s LNG complex on Bonny Island (Fig. 1) was awarded to the B7 JV consortium and the SCD JV Consortium by Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG), which is owned by Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), Shell Gas BV, Total Gaz Electricite Holdings France and Eni International.  Fig. 1. An LNG