Maintenance work on Nigerian LNG train to last until April – NLNG

Scheduled maintenance work is being conducted at one of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company’s (NLNG) six trains and will last until 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,” said company spokesman Tony Okonedo.

The company has the capacity to produce 22 million tonnes of LNG a year and 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.

NLNG, which was set up 16 years ago to export gas, is owned by Nigeria’s state-oil company NNPC, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Eni.

Nigeria has estimated gas reserves of 180 trillion cubic feet but only converts about 1.5 trillion cubic feet per year to LNG.