The $5 billion Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Train 7 project has reached 92 per cent completion and is now advancing into systems completion and pre-commissioning, marking a major milestone for Nigeria’s gas expansion drive and local content development. That was as Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) said 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 credited the surge to the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act of 2010. NLNG’s Project Director for Train 7, Mr. Ali Uwais, who represented the company’s Managing Director, Mr. Adeleye Falade, gave the project’s update in Lagos, at the 2026 Nigerian Oil and Gas Midstream and Downstream Summit in Lagos. The event was organised by NCDMB under the theme, “Unlocking, Growing & Sustaining Nigerian Content Development in Nigeria’s Oil & Gas Midstream and Downstream Sectors.” Uwais said the project, which faced years of delay and uncertainty, finally moved forward after front-end 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.

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