Fatima U. Adanan is the General Manager, Finance for Nigeria LNG Limited. She isan accountant with about 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
She has an accounting B.Sc. degree from Ahmadu Bello University and an M.Scdegree in Financial Management from Roberts Gordon University in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. She is a fellow of the Institute of Public Administration of Nigeria, a member of the National Association of Accountants of Nigeria and an SAP Certified Finance Consultant.
Her career started in 1997 when she joined Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC, now Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited) as the Accountant, Banking and Cash Management, Treasury Group. She served in the Documentary Credit Section and the Cash Office, as well as in supervisory roles in Taxes, Invoicing and Inventory between 2001 and 2017 before she was appointed Deputy Manager LNG/Loan Origination, Monitoring and Accounting in 2017. In 2020, she became the Manager of LNG/Midstream Finance in an acting capacityand was appointed in full capacity in the same role in 2021.
In her roles at NNPC, Fatima facilitated the signing of the NLNG Framework Agreement which secured the financing of up to US$2.5 billion to fund the NNPC CAPEX requirements of Upstream Gas Projects contracted to sell feedgas to NLNG, based on Gas Sales Agreements (GSA). Another highlight in her career was being part of the financing team that secured a US$3 billion loan for NLNG’s Train 7 project.
She has been recognised with awards and commendations for her contributions to major finance projects in NNPC.
She was working on the financing of the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Pipeline project to enable the construction and commissioning of the AKK pipeline that will boost gas utilisation in Nigeria, NNPC Refineries Rehabilitation, Pipeline and Depots and Train 7 Upstream Gas projects worth a total of estimated US$15.2 billion before her secondment to NLNG as General Manager Finance in September 2022.