据今日油价9月13日报道，尼日利亚液化天然气公司首席执行官托尼·阿塔赫(TonyAttah)在接受彭博采访时表示，非洲最大的天然气工厂运营商尼日利亚液化天然气公司正在向国内和国际贷方寻求100亿美元的贷款，以扩建其七号生产线的运营。
尼日利亚LNG本周早些时候签署了一份7号生产线工程、采购和建设(EPC)合同的意向书(LOI)。
阿塔赫签约仪式上表示，SCD集团是7号生产线项目的首选投标人。
尼日利亚液化天然气公司在Twitter网站上表示，随着意向书的签署，我们希望到10月底，签署7号生产线最终投资决定。这将确保我们实现将产量提高35％的雄心。
阿塔赫告诉彭博社，为了资助7号生产线的建设，尼日利亚液化天然气现在正寻求国内十大贷款机构筹集多达20亿美元的资金。这位经理说，该公司将把其余的资金—80亿美元—用于外国银行和出口信贷机构。
据彭博社报道，7号生产线预计将耗资70亿美元，另外30亿美元将用于建造和安装管道，以满足新设施的需求，并用于天然气收集项目。
尼日利亚与世界上最大的液化天然气出口国-卡塔尔、澳大利亚和美国-一道扩大其液化天然气出口能力。
尼日利亚液化天然气公司首席执行官告诉彭博社，新兴市场的需求是未来液化天然气销售增长的关键驱动力，包括约旦、孟加拉国和巴基斯坦等新市场。
尼日利亚液化天然气公司的股东由尼日利亚国家石油公司(NNPC)49％的股份，壳牌25.6％，法国道达尔15％的股份，以及意大利的埃尼SpA，占10.4％的股份。
郝芬 译自 今日油价
原文如下：
Nigeria LNG Seeks $10B Funding To Expand
The operator of Africa’s biggest natural gas plant, Nigeria LNG, is seeking a loan of US$10 billion from domestic and international lenders to expand its operations with a seventh train, the company’s chief executive Tony Attah told Bloomberg in an interview.
Nigeria LNG signed earlier this week a letter of intent (LOI) for the Train 7 engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract.
SCD Group is the preferred bidder for the Train 7 project, Attah said at the signing ceremony.
“With the signing of the LOI we hope that by the end of October a Final Investment Decision will be signed for Train 7. This will ensure we attain our ambition of increasing our production by 35%,” Nigeria LNG said on Twitter.
In order to finance the construction of Train 7, Nigeria LNG is now looking to raise as much as US$2 billion from the top ten domestic lenders, Attah told Bloomberg. The company will go for the remainder of the funding—US$8 billion—to foreign banks and export credit agencies, the manager said.
“We have done the financial market pitch to know who has capacity,” Attah told Bloomberg.
Train 7 is estimated to cost US$7 billion to build, while another US$3 billion will be necessary for the construction and installation of pipelines to feed the new facility and for natural gas gathering projects, according to Bloomberg.
Nigeria joins the largest LNG exporters in the world—Qatar, Australia, and the U.S.—in expanding its LNG export capabilities.
Nigeria LNG sees demand from emerging markets as the key driver of future LNG sales growth, including new markets such as Jordan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, the company’s CEO told Bloomberg.
Nigeria LNG’s shareholders are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with a 49-percent stake, Shell with 25.6 percent, France’s Total with a 15-percent interest, and Italy’s Eni SpA with a 10.4-percent share.
