In November 1995, a Final Investment Decision (FID) was signed by the Shareholders to build a Liquefied Natural Gas Plant in Finima, Bonny Island in Rivers State.
In December 1995, a consortium of engineering firms comprising Technip, Snamprogetti, M.V. Kellog and Japan Gas Corporation (TSKJ) was awarded a turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the construction of the Plant, the Gas Transmission System and the Residential Area.
Construction of the plant site commenced in February 1996 and by August 1999, one of the two trains (Train 2) was completed.
On August 12 of the same year, the plant was ready for start-up, and production of LNG commenced on September 15. The second train of the Base Project, Train 1, came on stream on February 27, 2000. Train 3 came into operations in November 2002.
NLNGPlus, comprising Trains 4 and 5, came on stream in November 2005 (for Train 4) and February 2006 (for Train 5).
NLNG Six, came on stream in December 2007.
The Plant is built on 2.27sq. km of largely reclaimed land in Finima, Bonny Island. It currently has six trains in operation.
The main elements of the operational plant are:
- Dedicated gas transmission pipelines passing through over 110 communities
- Dedicated gas transmission pipelines passing through over 110 communities
- Three LNG storage tanks with a capacity of 84,200 cubic metres each
- A common fractionation plant to process LPG
- Two Condensate storage tanks with a capacity of 36,000 cubic metres each
- Two 65,000 cubic metre LPG refrigerated tanks (for propane & butane)
- Ten generators with a total capacity of 400 MW
- Two LNG export jetties
- One LPG and Condensate export jetty
- 23 LNG ships dedicated to NLNG service
- Two Materials off-loading jetty
- A residential area covering 2.08sq.km.
With the completion of the NLNGSix Project, the Nigeria LNG Plant has an overall capacity of some 22 million tonnes per annum of LNG and 4 million tonnes per annum of LPG. It requires about 3.5 bcf/d feedgas intake at full production.
Plans for building Train 7 that will lift the total production capacity to over 30 MTPA LNG by 2012, are currently at an advanced stage.
The plant has rapidly and successfully made the transition from a construction project to a stable production operation, with a robust delivery chain underpinned by relentless focus on asset integrity and HSE assurance.
This has made NLNG to achieve, within a short span, the status of a very reliable supplier of LNG in the Atlantic Basin, serving the European and North American markets.
