TotalEnergies and AMNI sanction Ima gas field to feed Nigeria LNG Train 7
A single platform near Bonny Island will supply about a third of the gas for the 30 Mtpa expansion from 2028
TotalEnergies and its Nigerian partner AMNI have taken the final investment decision to develop the Ima gas field, which straddles the OML 112 and OML 117 offshore licences in Nigeria. TotalEnergies holds 40% and will operate the project; AMNI holds the remaining 60%.
The field lies in shallow water close to Bonny Island, the site of the Nigeria LNG liquefaction plant. It will be developed with a single platform connected to the plant by a 22 km pipeline. TotalEnergies itself holds 15% of Nigeria LNG.
Production is due to start in 2028 and reach a plateau of 350 million cubic feet of gas a day, equivalent to more than 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. The company's announcement of 23 September says that once on stream the field will supply about one-third of the gas needed for Nigeria LNG's Train 7 expansion, which raises the plant's liquefaction capacity from 22 million tonnes a year to 30 million.
The design is intended to keep both cost and emissions down: a simplified platform, electric power supplied from shore, no flaring, and permanent methane detection and monitoring. About 60% of the development workforce is to come from host communities, and all the key contractors are Nigerian companies. The investment amount was not disclosed.
"We are very pleased to announce the FID for the Ima gas project, marking a new milestone in our integrated gas strategy in Nigeria," said Nicolas Terraz, President Exploration & Production at TotalEnergies.
Ima is the second field TotalEnergies has committed to feeding the Bonny plant in recent years, after it launched the Ubeta gas development for the same purpose in 2024. Securing feed gas is the constraint on Train 7: the new capacity only produces cargoes if the upstream fields deliver on time.
For LNG shipping the expansion is a question of volume on the Atlantic basin. An extra eight million tonnes a year from Bonny is additional export capacity from a plant whose own fleet already serves buyers in Europe and Asia, and the Ima start-up date of 2028 sets when a third of that gas becomes available.
This story is part of the Maritime Briefing of 26 September 2026.
