Plans are announced for Nigeria’s first methanol production facility

Gulf of Guinea Oil Exploration (GGOEX), an integrated energy company established to take advantage of opportunities in the Gulf of Guinea, has announced plans to build a $700-million methanol plant in Nigeria by 2015. The plant, with a capacity of 850,000 m.t./year, will be the largest in West Africa. The company has selected the Mitsubishi methanol process (MMP) for the plant. The project, the first commercial-scale facility to use the MMP process in West Africa, will be located at the gas industrial park in the state of Delta. The cost of the project will be...

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