Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) today made a significant step towards the Final
Investment Decision (FID) for its Train 7 Project, with the issuance of a Letter of Intent
for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contract of the project to
SCD JV Consortium.
SCD JV Consortium is made up of Saipem of Italy, Japan’s Chiyoda and Daewoo of
South Korea.
This is coming on the heels of the Nigeria Content (NC) plan signed with Nigerian
Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the recent milestone of the 3 rd
of September, 2019 when NLNG submitted the summary outcome of the commercial
bids evaluation for the Train 7 Project to NCDMB in line with the project certification
and authorization procedure.
According to NLNG, the Letter of Intent is one of the key milestones to be achieved on
the road to FID by its Shareholders; this expresses the intention to award the main
EPC Contract for the Train 7 Project to the preferred bidder, saying that it marks
another significant step towards the realization of Train 7 and it’s attendant value to
NLNG’s Shareholders and for the benefit of the Nigerian Economy.
The Company also assured that the contracting process was transparent in full
compliance with all applicable laws and good industry practices, stating that it will
continue to operate its business in an open manner consistent with its core values of
Integrity and Excellence.
The Train 7 Project is expected to ramp up NLNG’s production capacity by 35% from
22 Million Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA) to around 30 MTPA. The Project will form part
of the investment of over US$10 billion including the upstream scope of the LNG
value chain, thereby boosting the much needed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
profile of Nigeria. . The Project is anticipated to create about 10,000 new jobs during
the construction stage, and on completion, help to further diversify the revenue
portfolio of the Federal Government and increase its tax base. The company said this
was in line with its corporate vision of ”Helping to build a better Nigeria”. The
construction period after FID will last approximately four to five years.
NLNG is owned by four Shareholders, namely, the Federal Government of Nigeria,
represented by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (49%), Shell Gas B.V.
(25.6%), Total Gaz Electricite Holdings France (15%), and Eni International N.A. N. V.
S.àr. l (10.4%).
The actualisation of the Train 7 Project comes as NLNG celebrates 30 years of its
incorporation and 20 years since exporting its first LNG cargo in 1999.
