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TotalEnergies and Nigerian partner AMNI announced a final investment decision for the Ima gas field offshore Nigeria on September 23. TotalEnergies holds a 40% interest and operates the project; AMNI owns 60%. The development covers a field spanning the offshore OML 112 and OML 117 licences.
The plan calls for a single platform in shallow water and a 22-kilometre pipeline to Nigeria LNG. Start-up is expected in 2028, with production targeted to reach 350 million cubic feet per day, which the company also describes as more than 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. These are two ways of expressing the same target flow.
TotalEnergies expects Ima to supply about one-third of the gas required by the ongoing NLNG Train 7 expansion once the field is operating. Train 7 is intended to raise liquefaction capacity from 22 million tonnes per year to 30 million. Those figures describe the company’s planned supply relationship after start-up; Ima is not supplying gas yet.
The design includes shore-based power, no routine flaring and permanent methane detection and monitoring. The company also says all key contractors will be Nigerian firms and around 60% of the development workforce is expected to come from host communities. These are project commitments and expectations, not completed employment or independently measured environmental outcomes.
Train 7’s stated capacity increase is 8 million tonnes per year, about 36% above the existing 22 million-tonne figure. That comparison is calculated from the company’s published capacities. Future Ima gas is intended as feedstock for the liquefaction plant. Field gas output and LNG processing capacity are different measures and should not be treated as the same volume.