Shell To Add About 12 Million Tons LNG Capacity in Nigeria, Others By 2030

Shell says it plans to add up to 12 million metric tons of additional capacity in Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, UAE, Canada, and Qatar between now and 2030.

Jun 11, 2025 - 19:29

Shell To Add About 12 Million Tons LNG Capacity in Nigeria, Others By 2030

Shell says it plans to add up to 12 million metric tons of additional capacity in Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, UAE, Canada, and Qatar between now and 2030.

The oil conglomerate is the world’s largest trader of liquefied natural gas.
The projects are already in construction, Reuters quoted a top executive of the company as saying on Wednesday.
Nigeria currently produces 3, 009, 650 million cubic feet of gas from its deposit, ranking 12th on the world’s list of gas-producing countries.
Shell's President of integrated gas, Cederic

Cremers who spoke said, “There is) up to 12 million tons of additional (LNG) capacity that we’re adding between now and the end of the decade,” , Shell’s president of said at Wood Mackenzie’s Gas, LNG and the Future of Energy Conference in London.

“That is not an ambition. Those are all projects that are currently under construction.”
The report, however, did not state the exact quantity the IOC intends to churn out in Nigeria in the period under review.
Nigeria has chosen gas as its key transition fuel and named the 2020- 2030 period as “Decade of Gas” in a bid to monetise its 208 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves to drive industrialisation, create jobs, and generate revenue.