NGC revealed this in a statement issued last week following a visit by the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA).
According to the statement, the acting managing director of NGC Ben Iloanusi said that the company has achieved the retrofitting of some of its locomotives and test run these on the Abuja-Kaduna rail corridor.
NGC seeks to introduce this mixture of diesel-LNG technology across existing rail corridors, he said.
This technology, he said, is not only “clean and environmentally friendly, but also cost-efficient.”
NRC is “open to partnership and collaboration to a full-fledged deployment of this technology nationwide,” he said.
The statement did not provide further details.
According to Nigeria’s Ministry of Transportation, NRC took delivery of the first retrofitted locomotive in September this year.
The locomotive is capable of running on a dual-fuel system, with 70 percent LNG and 30 percent diesel.
The aim is to retrofit all NRC locomotives to run on LNG, according to the ministry.
Besides LNG-powered locomotives, state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp and its partners plan to build a network of LNG stations for vehicles in Nigeria.
NNPC has a 49 percent stake in Nigeria LNG, the operator of the six-train 22 mtpa facility on Bonny Island.
The company and its partners Shell, TotalEnergies, and Eni are also adding the seventh train to boost the capacity to about 30 mtpa.
Besides Nigeria LNG, NNPC is in talks with investors to revive two LNG export projects, Brass and Olokola.
In addition to onshore projects, NNPC is also working on FLNG projects.
NNPC and Golar LNG are working on a floating LNG project offshore Nigeria’s Niger Delta, while NNPC also has a 20 percent stake in UTM Offshore, which is developing Nigeria’s first FLNG project.
