The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has said it is only a facilitator of the $1.5 billion dockyard proposed to be built in the country and not an investor in the project as earlier reported in some media.
According to the Manager, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Tony Okonedo, the clarification was made by the General Manager, External Relations, Dr Kudo Eresia-Eke when the President Rivers Entrepreneurs and Investors Forum, Mr. Ibifiri Bob-Manuel, and his team paid him a courtesy call at his office. Eresia-Eke said NLNG was only involved as a promoter of Nigerian Content.
He said the company insisted on three elements as part of the Nigerian Content for the ship building acquisition by one of its subsidiaries, Bonny Gas Transport Limited. One of these elements was that the shipbuilders explore possibilities of creating a dry dock facility in Nigeria, training of at least 600 Nigerians in ship maintenance, and the purchase from Nigeria of local Nigerian products for the ship building project in South Korea.
 It might interest you to know that Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) are constructing six new LNG carriers for NLNG subsidiary, Bonny Gas Transport Limited.
