Total plans to make a Final Investment Decision (FID) on a seventh train on the NLNG plant in Bonny Island (Nigeria) by the end of 2019. In September 2019, NLNG signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) for Train 7 with the SCD consortium of Saipem, Chiyoda and Daewoo. The new train would have a capacity of 8 Mt/year (10.8 bcm/year), increasing the total production capacity of the company by 35% to 30 Mt/year (40.5 bcm/year).
Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), a company made up of NNPC (49%), Shell (25.6%), Total (15%) and Eni (10.4%), owns the Bonny natural gas liquefaction plant, which is currently composed of 6 trains with a total capacity of 22 Mt/year (30 bcm/year). In 2018, Nigeria was the fifth-largest LNG producer in the world, with its production reaching 25 bcm (-3% compared to 2017). NLNG has been trying for several years to expand its LNG plant on Bonny Island.
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