The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Nigerian private oil sales company UTM Offshore have selected JGC to deliver the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work for a 1.2 Mt/year (1.8 bcm) floating LNG (FLNG) plant in Nigeria. The plant would tap gas resources from the Yoho gas field owned and operated by ExxonMobil and the NNPC. It will remove reinjected gas in the field that was used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
With estimated reserve of 400 mbl, the Yoho field produced first oil in 2002. ExxonMobil’s affiliate Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) holds a 40% stake and operatorship in the field together with the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, 60%). Crude loadings at Yoho’s floating storage and offloading unit reached 35,000 bbl/d in 2020.