NLNG Celebrates 3,000th Cargo Lifting From Bonny

The Nigeria Liquefied Natu
ral Gas (LNG) Limited targets to export 325 cargoes of Liquefied Natural Gas to European and Asian customers this year.
The Head of Gas Supply at NLNG Limited, Mr. Emmanuel Nnabuife, said, at a recent celebration of the loading and casting off of the 3,000th LNG cargo from the Bonny Island plant  that the company had targeted to load 325 cargoes in 2013, but could not achieve this target.
He said the company ended up exporting 280 cargoes because of the blockade by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), which accounted for non-export of 25 cargoes and the disruption of gas supply to the plant as a result of vandalism.
“In 2013, we started with a plan to do 325 cargoes. But we ended up with 280 cargoes because of the challenges we had with some of our external stakeholders, one of them, as you know, is the NIMASA issue we had in June, which led to the loss of about 25 cargoes off our production plan. Also, we suffered gas supply constraints because of the challenges we have in the Niger Delta today. People go in and drill into the pipelines and what that creates is that we have to shut down to repair the lines. For any of those interventions, production suffers. But by and large, we closed the year with 280 cargoes, which is about 45 cargoes below the target, hoping that this year, we will do close to 325,” he said.