Nigeria LNG Goes Digital to Cut Shipping Costs

Baker Hughes, a GE company, said September 20 it has agreed to provide Nigeria LNG with Asset Performance Management software and services.

The deal marks the first such 'APM' solution sold and executed both in the LNG market and in Sub-Saharan Africa by the US provider.

Asked by Nigeria LNG to develop a solution to enhance the performance of LNG trains at its gas liquefaction plant in Bonny Island, Nigeria, Baker Hughes said it has committed to enable NLNG to achieve a reduction of 20% of trips on the LNG trains within three years.

Nigeria LNG is 49%-owned by state Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Shell 25.6%, Total 15%, and Eni 10.4%. It has six LNG liquefaction trains with a total annual capacity of 22mn metric tons, and also produces some LPGs and condensates.

No contract value was disclosed by Baker Hughes, which announced the deal during an event about digitalisation that it hosted for the oil and gas industry in Paris, attended by some 200 professionals from the sector.

Mark Smedley