Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) has urged global gas producers to make methane reduction a business priority, describing methane emissions as lost gas, revenue and energy that could otherwise be recovered and sold.
NLNG Managing Director, Mr Adeleye Falade, made the call on Wednesday, September 16, at the Gastech 2026 Exhibition and Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, during a panel on methane abatement across natural gas supply chains. He said NLNG measures methane losses and uses the data to guide investments in leak prevention and gas recovery, stressing that independent verification was essential for credible emissions reporting.
Falade cited NLNG’s new boil-off gas compressor and start-up gas recovery project as examples of investments that could reduce methane emissions by about 10 to 15 per cent each, while also improving asset reliability and plant efficiency. He said NLNG had become the first company in Africa to achieve Level 5 methane emissions reporting under OGMP 2.0, with its measurement, reporting and verification system independently assured by DNV.
He added that NLNG was deploying optical gas imaging, a structured Leak Detection and Repair programme, continuous monitoring and real-time dashboards across its plant and vessels. Falade said methane reduction was also being incorporated into the Train 7 project, which is expected to raise production capacity from 22 million to 30 million tonnes annually, while efforts to monetise gas that would otherwise be flared had helped reduce Nigeria’s gas-flaring rate from above 65 per cent to below 20 per cent.
Falade stressed that developing economies should pursue emissions reduction alongside economic development and energy access.
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