The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which is supporting the development, announced the request for proposals on its website.
According to the USTDA, the study will involve an LNG market assessment and off-taker engagement to help identify new customers for Powergas’s anticipated LNG operations as well as technical analysis and detailed engineering plans needed to implement the project.
The proposal submission deadline is August 7, 2026, while the U.S. firm selected will be paid from a $1,227,000 grant to Powergas from the agency.
Powergas is one of Africa’s largest producers and distributors of compressed natural gas (CNG).
The company has five operational CNG plants from which they have delivered over 14 billion standard cubic feet (scf) of CNG to industrial, commercial, and transport customers.
Their operations span multiple regions in Nigeria, with a robust distribution network and a customer base that includes leading multinational corporations, according to the agency.
Due to the significant unmet electricity demand and growing interest in turning to bulk sources like LNG in Nigeria’s industrial sector, Powergas seeks to develop a scalable small-scale LNG plant that will have a total nameplate capacity of 200 metric tons per day (mt/d) of LNG, consisting of four trains of 50 mt/d each, it said.
The plant’s equipment and technology include natural gas metering, regulation, purification, and liquefaction.
It will be located at one of Powergas’s two existing sites, either at the Ebedei CNG plant in Delta State or the Ogbele CNG plant in Rivers State, USTDA said.
Nigeria LNG and small plants
Nigeria hosts the Nigeria LNG-operated Bonny Island liquefaction plant, which currently has six trains and a capacity of 22 mtpa, while NLNG is also adding the seventh production unit.
Last year, state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, which has a 49 percent stake in Nigeria LNG, and its partners held a groundbreaking ceremony for five small-scale LNG plants in Nigeria.
NNPC has stakes in three of the five mini-LNG plants (90 percent in Prime LNG, 50 percent in NGML/Gasnexus LNG, and 10 percent in BUA LNG), while Highland LNG and LNG Arete are developed by other private companies.
The plants have a combined capacity of 97 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscf/d).
