NLNG awards Baker Hughes 13-year gas turbine services contract

Shree Mishra

Tue, June 30, 2026 astatine 6:43 AM CDT 2 min read

Baker Hughes has been awarded a 13-year declaration by Nigeria LNG (NLNG) to present broad beingness rhythm services for turbomachinery astatine the latter's liquefaction installation successful Bonny Island, Nigeria.

The recently signed work statement extends a concern betwixt the 2 companies that has lasted for much than 20 years.

Under the contract, Baker Hughes volition proviso attraction and enactment services for instrumentality linked to the caller Train 7 liquefied earthy state (LNG) project. Train 7 is expected to summation Nigeria LNG's accumulation capableness from 22 cardinal tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 30mtpa.

Baker Hughes main maturation and acquisition serviceman and concern and vigor exertion interim enforcement vice-president Maria Claudia Borras said: "This statement reinforces the spot of our long-standing collaboration with NLNG and our committedness to the region.

"Our precocious beingness rhythm services and determination expertise tin assistance NLNG guarantee businesslike and reliable operations astatine its Bonny Island facility, portion bolstering vigor reliability arsenic Nigeria continues to harness its proven state reserves to conscionable increasing planetary vigor demands."

The scope of the statement includes servicing 4 dense work state turbines and corresponding centrifugal compressors, arsenic good arsenic 2 further state turbines for powerfulness generation. These units were antecedently awarded to Baker Hughes successful 2021.

The work bundle volition utilise a section engineering squad and see iCenter integer services powered by the company's Cordant platform. These integer services purpose to supply distant diagnostics and amended the reliability and availability of supported equipment.

Work related to the statement volition instrumentality spot astatine the Baker Hughes Service Centre successful Nigeria's Port Harcourt, which employs section unit and offers beingness rhythm enactment services.

According to Baker Hughes, the improvement of Train 7 is acceptable to play an important relation successful Nigeria's aspiration to articulation the ranks of the apical planetary LNG producers.

Nigeria LNG managing manager and CEO Adeleye Falade said: "Utilising Baker Hughes' industry-leading beingness rhythm services and integer expertise volition assistance enactment the palmy semipermanent cognition of our Train 7 project.

"As we grow our accumulation capacity, we are strengthening Nigeria's relation arsenic a competitory planetary vigor supplier, creating greater economical worth for our stakeholders and supporting a applicable vigor modulation done the transportation of lower-carbon vigor solutions."

NLNG began operations successful 1999 with a two-train works and has since grown to a six-train facility, delivering much than 6,000 LNG cargoes to customers worldwide.