Bonny plant commences operation
Nigeria’s Bonny
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant has restarted after a power outage
shut down the facility on December 22, a spokesman for the national
energy company said on Friday.
“The plant had been at a reduced capacity this week, but we expect normal operations to begin next week,” the spokesman said.
Nigeria is the
world’s seventh-largest exporter of LNG. The Bonny plant, the country’s
chief LNG facility, has production capacity of around 22 million tonnes
a year.
Nigeria LNG Limited
runs the plant, which is owned by Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) with 49 percent; Shell, 25.6 percent; Total, 15
percent; and Eni, 10.4 percent.
The facility is located on Bonny island in the heart of Africa’s largest oil and gas industry.
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