Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) have held strategic discussions aimed at strengthening collaboration on NLNG’s planned revamp and enhancement of key operational facilities in Trains 1 to 6 of its Bonny Island plant.
This was disclosed in a joint statement by Sophia Horsfall, General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development at NLNG, and Obinna Ezeobi, General Manager, Corporate Communications Division at NCDMB. According to the statement, the initiative seeks to boost asset integrity, improve plant performance, and enhance overall productivity.
City Business News reports that the engagement took place during the Nigerian Content Stakeholders Retreat hosted by NLNG at its operational base in Finima, Bonny Island, Rivers State.
During the retreat, NLNG’s General Manager, Production, Nnamdi Anowi, unveiled the company’s revamp programme, tagged Accelerated Asset Intervention (AAI). He explained that the initiative, scheduled to commence in 2026, will overhaul critical Trains and Common Facilities vital to plant uptime and reliability.
He noted that the programme will require NCDMB’s support and timely approvals to ensure smooth execution.
“The goal is to implement predictive maintenance, sustain top-quartile reliability performance, continue to deliver gas and value to the country, and maintain NLNG’s position as the best company in Nigeria,” Anowi said.
In response, NCDMB’s Executive Secretary, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe, represented by the Director of Capacity Building, Engr. Abayomi Bamidele, pledged the Board’s full support in line with its mandate as regulator and industry enabler.
He highlighted the strong history of cooperation between both organisations, including the development of the industry’s first Service Level Agreement (SLA) between a regulator and an operator.
He recalled that NCDMB granted accelerated approvals for key aspects of the NLNG Train 7 Project, enabling its commencement in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as for new gas supply projects that will feed Train 7.
The Executive Secretary underscored the need for NLNG to maximise Nigerian content and leverage in-country capacities in the upcoming intervention packages, in compliance with the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act.
At the Award Gala Dinner marking the close of the retreat, Engr. Ogbe commended NLNG for the significant progress recorded on Train 7, noting that thousands of Nigerians have been employed on the project, boosting national economic growth.
Pioneer NCDMB Executive Secretary, Dr. Ernest Nwapa, also addressed participants, noting that NLNG has been a long-standing leader in Nigerian Content development. He recalled the company’s voluntary compliance in earlier years and its commissioning of the industry’s first skills gap analysis to guide national capacity-building strategies.
The event concluded with the presentation of awards to organisations and individuals for outstanding contributions to Nigerian Content development. Honorees included NCDMB (Nigerian Content Business Enabler Award); Promat Coating Limited (Train 7 Award for Local Manufacturing and Procurement); EVOMEC Global Services Limited and ARCO Worldwide Services (Overall Best Nigerian Content Compliant Contractors, Technical and Non-Technical categories); and Seflam SGL Limited (Nigerian Content Diversity and Inclusion Award), among others.
Organisers described the retreat as a milestone in fostering stronger collaboration to advance local content, enhance industrial capacity, and support Nigeria’s long-term gas and energy ambitions.
