Nigeria steps on the gas

摘要

TSKJ, a joint venture, has won from Nigeria LNG Ltd the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the realisation of the trains 4 and 5 expansion project, or "NLNGPlus" project, at its existing LNG facility on Bonny Island. The partners in TSKJ are Technip-Coflexip, Snamprogetti, KBR (a subsidiary of Halliburton) and JGC Corporation. The contract is worth about USD 1.7 billion. When the NLNGPlus project is completed in November 2005, the plant will have an overall production capacity of 16.8 million tons per year of LNG and two million tonnes per year of liquefied petroleum gas. It will also utilise about 2800 million standard cubic feet per day of gas. Each of the two new trains and associated facilities will be able to process 4 million tonnes per year of LNG. Also, the expansion is intended to increase the capability of the complex to process associated gas feed-stock, enabling a major reduction in gas flaring in Nigeria.This is the second Bonny Island expansion project. The first two LNG trains came on stream in the summer of 1999 and at the end of 1999 respectively Train 3, announced in early 1999, is expected to come on stream this November.