NLNG Plant not shut down – Management

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has described as “false and misleading” a report, published in one of Nigeria’s national newspapers, alleging that the Company’s “prolonged shutdown threatens gas production.”

A statement by Andy Odeh, NLNG’s General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, titled “NLNG Plant is not shut down,” dated August 18, 2023, said, categorically, that “operation at its plant on Bonny Island is still active despite a Force Majeure, which still subsists due to the unavailability of upstream gas suppliers’ major liquids evacuation pipelines occasioned by sabotage and vandalism.

“The plant continues to produce LNG and LPG commensurate to the feed gas it receives from its upstream gas suppliers. Its cargo loading operation also continues without interruption. The latest cargo from the Bonny plant sailed on 17^th August 2023 to the St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, carrying 140,000 M3 of LNG.”

The Company also reassured that it “remains committed to collaborating with key stakeholders to minimise the impact of the consequent gas supply shortage.”