Nigeria LNG’s Managing Director, Adeleye Falade, says the company’s Train 7 facility is now 90 per cent complete, with pre-commissioning already begun.

He expects the plant to come on stream in 2027 and to lift NLNG’s output capacity by about 35 per cent. Falade gave the update during a visit to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board’s Executive Secretary, Felix Omatsola Ogbe, in Lagos.

The project has so far provided direct work for 16,000 people on site, an outcome Falade linked to reduced insecurity and greater socio economic stability. He restated the company’s focus on deepening Nigerian Content and keeping more value within the country across its gas operations.

Falade said NLNG saw its responsibility as supporting local capacity, expanding domestic supply chains and ensuring its work delivered tangible benefits to the economy, naming vendor development, skills training, technology transfer and local procurement as areas of continued collaboration with the board.

Ogbe congratulated him on his appointment and recalled the pioneering Service Level Agreement the two bodies signed in 2017, later copied across the industry. He pressed NLNG to push ahead with the Brass Shipyard, a Train 7 capacity development initiative intended to create a drydock facility of value to the company and the wider country.