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To hand over to Philip Mshelbila
Tony Attah, managing director of Nigeria LNG Limited ends his tenure as chief executive officer of the gas company in August this year.
Meanwhile, the board of directors of NLNG at its last board meeting approved the appointment of Philip Mshelbila as successor to Attah, as the new managing director and chief executive officer of the company, which last month unveiled its multi-billion-naira head-office in Port Harcourt, River State.
Attah will return to his parent company, Shell, on 30 August 2021 at the expiration of his five-year tenure at the helm of affairs of NLNG.
According to Eyono Fatayi-Williams, general manager, external relations and sustainable development NLNG, the outgoing CEO, Attah was appointed chief executive officer by the NLNG board in July 2016.
Mshelbila, who is rounding-up his tenure as chief executive officer, Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad & Tobago, will be taking over from Attah on 31 August 2021.
NLNG, which began construction of its $7 billion Train 7 LNG plant, is an incorporated Joint-Venture owned by four Shareholders, namely, the Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (49%), Shell Gas B.V. (25.6%), Total Gaz Electricite Holdings France (15%), and Eni International N.A. N.V. S.àr.l (10.4%).
