The Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited says its $5 billion Train 7 project has hit 92 percent completion and now advancing into the precommissioning stage.
The completion of the project marks a major milestone for Nigeria’s gas expansion drive and local content development.
This is as the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has disclosed that the number of companies operating in the country’s upstream oil and gas sector had risen from less than 10 to 117, while service firms surged to 11,764 currently.
NCDMB attributed the surge to the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development NOGICD, Act of 2010, according to ThisDay Newspaper.
Speaking at the recent 2026 Nigerian Oil and Gas Midstream and Downstream Summit held in Lagos, NLNG’s managing director, Mr. Adeleye Falade, represented by the project director for Train 7, Mr. Ali Uwais, said the project, which faced years of delay and uncertainty, finally moved forward after frontend engineering commenced in 2018 and a reconfiguration introduced a common liquefaction unit that boosted capacity to the equivalent of two trains from the earlier era.
According to Uwais “In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the engineering procurement and construction contract for the project was awarded to Saipem, Chiyoda and Daewoo Consortium.
“Despite global uncertainty, the shareholders remain committed that the project move forward, even under that Covid. Today, Train 7 is over 92 per cent complete.” When operational, the Train 7 is expected to raise NLNG’s production capacity from 22 million tons per annum MTPA, to 30MTPA, representing a five per cent increase in the company’s export capacity.
Uwais said the project’s real significance lay in its impact on the Nigerian industry and capability, crediting deliberate collaboration with government agencies and private firms for the progress.
He said one of the most important decisions the company made earlier in the project was to treat Nigerian content not as a compliance obligation, but as a development opportunity.
He stated that the decision shaped how they treated the project. As the project required up to 4,000 tons of structural steel within a tight schedule, Uwais said Nigerian companies, such as Dorman Long, Aveon, African Industries, among others, supplied a significant portion.
He added that NLNG also invested in steel fabrication and galvanising facilities that will serve the wider industry after the completion of Train 7.
