Nigerian Railway Corporation transitions to LNG

ABUJA, October 7, 2024 – State-owned Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has begun test-driving locomotives retrofitted to use LNG, the company and its partners Greenville LNG and De-Sadel Consortium revealed in a fuelling event late last week.

The event consisted of several tests of the retrofitted locomotives with passengers on the NRC’s Abuja-Kaduna trains. Representatives of the event included Gokul Moothedathu, general manager of LNG-CNG retailing for Greenville LNG; Amit Singh, head of commercial for Greenville LNG; Samuel Uko, chairman of the De-Sadel Consortium; and several senior NRC officials.

The test drives follow the federal government announcing in March 2024 that it would transition the NRC’s locomotives from diesel to LNG. The proposal was initially proposed by the De-Sadel Consortium, which retrofitted the locomotives. The NRC and Greenville LNG have a partnership for the supply of LNG.

Transitioning Nigeria’s public transport to LNG is a part of the country’s efforts to promote more sustainable and low-carbon energy solutions and its Decade of Gas initiative, which seeks to transform Nigeria’s economy into a gas-based one by 2030.

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