Country
Nigeria: LNG infrastructure
Nigeria has 9 LNG terminals and 26 tracked gas pipelines in the Global Energy Monitor tracker. It is a net exporter, with 22.2 Mtpa of operating liquefaction capacity and no operating import capacity.
Export capacity
22.2 Mtpa
4.2 Mtpa under construction
Import capacity
—
operating regasification
Pipelines
26
18,273 km tracked
Fleet
0
0 flagged, 0 owned from here
Import and export balance
| Direction | Terminals | Operating | Under construction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export (liquefaction) | 8 | 22.2 | 4.2 |
| Import (regasification) | 1 | — | — |
Figures are whole-terminal capacities in Mtpa, not adjusted for ownership stakes or utilisation.
LNG terminals in Nigeria
| Import / export | Type | Units | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ace Gas Nigeria FLNG Terminal | Export | FLNG | Proposed | 3 Mtpaproposed | 1 | — |
| Brass LNG TerminalBayelsa | Export | Not reported | Shelved | Not reported | 2 | — |
| Golar Lagos FSRU | Import | FSRU | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Golar Nigeria FLNG Terminal | Export | FLNG | Shelved | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Nigeria LNG TerminalRivers | Export | Not reported | Operating | 22.2 Mtpa | 13 | 1999 |
| Olokola LNG TerminalCross River State | Export | Not reported | Proposed | 12.6 Mtpaproposed | 4 | — |
| Riverside LNG TerminalRivers | Export | Not reported | Shelved | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Transoceanic Nigeria FLNG Terminal | Export | FLNG | Shelved | Not reported | 1 | — |
| UTM Offshore FLNG Terminal | Export | FLNG | Proposed | 2.1 Mtpaproposed | 1 | — |
Gas pipelines crossing Nigeria
Any pipeline whose country list includes this country, including transit pipelines that only pass through.
| Countries | Segments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajaokuta-Obajana Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 90 km | 0.84 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Egbin Node-Alagbado Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 447 km | 1.6 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Escravos-Egbin Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 196 km | 10.3 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS)Escravos → Lagos | Nigeria | Operating | 344 km | 11.2 bcm/y | 1 | 1989 |
| Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS)Escravos → Lagos | Nigeria | Operating | 342 km | 11.2 bcm/y | 1 | 2021 |
| Escravos-Warri-Oben Gas PipelineEscravos → Oben node | Nigeria | Operating | 110 km | 1.53 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Gulf of Guinea Gas PipelineNigeria → Equatorial Guniea | Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea | Proposed | 200 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Ibadan–Jebba Gas PipelineIbadan → Jebba | Nigeria | Proposed | 510 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Nigeria-Morocco Gas PipelineLagos → Tangiers | Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain | Proposed | 5,660 km | 30 bcm/y | 1 | 2046 |
| Nigeria–Libya Gas Pipeline | Nigeria, Niger, Libya | Proposed | 3,188 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Oben-Ajaokuta Steel Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 16 km | 1.87 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Oben-Geregu Gas PipelineOben → Geregu | Nigeria | Operating | 196 km | 12.3 bcm/y | 1 | 2011 |
| Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben Gas PipelineObiafu-Obrikom gas plant → Oben node | Nigeria | Under construction | 127 km | 20.4 bcm/y | 1 | 2022 |
| Obiafu-Rumuji Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 62 km | 5.17 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Obiafu-Ubeta Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 29 km | 4.55 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Qua Iboe Terminal to Obiafu-Obrikom Gas PipelineQua Iboe oil terminal → Obiafu-Obrikom gas plant | Nigeria | Cancelled | 177 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| Rumuji Node-Bonny Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 85 km | 12.9 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Rumuji-Bonny Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 82 km | 7.23 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Soku-Bonny Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 100 km | 14.5 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Soku-Rumuji Gas Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 41 km | 6.2 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Trans Nigeria Gas PipelineIbeno → Kano | Nigeria | Under construction | 614 km | 35.8 bcm/y | 1 | 2025 |
| Trans Nigeria Gas PipelineCawthorne Channel → Oyigbo | Nigeria | Proposed | 686 km | 3.5 bcm/y | 1 | — |
| Trans-Sahara Gas PipelineWarri → Hassi R'Mel | Nigeria, Niger, Algeria | Shelved | 4,128 km | 30 bcm/y | 1 | 2030 |
| Ukanafun-Calabar Gas PipelineUkanafun → Calabar | Nigeria | Operating | 128 km | 1.23 bcm/y | 1 | 2017 |
| Uquo-Oron Pipeline | Nigeria | Operating | 37 km | Not reported | 1 | — |
| West African Gas PipelineItoki terminal, Lagos → Takoradi | Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benin | Operating | 678 km | 2.04 bcm/y | 1 | 2006 |
Chokepoint exposure
Chokepoint exposure is shown on each terminal page, taken from a hand-maintained trade-lane table. It is an editorial routing model of typical laden voyages, not vessel tracking. The exposure feed aggregates it by chokepoint.