Nigeria LNG Names New MD

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has named Babs Jolayemi Omotowa as its new managing director.

He will replace Chima Ibeneche, who will retire on January 31, after he served the company as managing director for three years.

Babs Jolayemi Omotowa was VP, Health, Safety, Environment, Infrastructure and Logistics for Shell companies in Sub-Sahara Africa.

Shell holds a 25.6% interest in NLNG together with NNPC (49%), Total LNG Nigeria Ltd (15%) and Eni (10.4%).

With the completion of a sixth production train in December 2007, the Nigeria LNG Plant at Bonny Island has an overall capacity of some 22 million tonnes a year of LNG and 4 million tonnes per annum of LPG.

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LNG World News Staff, December 21, 2011; Image: NLNG