The Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) Board on Friday announced the appointment of Philip Mshelbila as the new chief executive Officer of the gas company, to take over from Tony Attah, whose tenure expires by August 30, 2021.
Attah is expected to be back at the Royal Dutch Shell, where he was seconded to the NLNG at the expiry of his five-year tenure at the gas firms.
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Attah was appointed Chief Executive Officer by the NLNG Board in July 2016.
However, Mshelbila, who is rounding up his tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad & Tobago, will be taking over from Attah on August 31, 2021, according to a statement from the gas company.
NLNG is an incorporated Joint-Venture owned by four Shareholders, namely, the Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (49 percent), Shell Gas B.V. (25.6 percent), Total Gaz Electricite Holdings France (15 percent), and Eni International N.A. N.V. S.à r.l (10.4 percent).