The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Total Upstream Nigeria Limited (TUPNI) and other partners have announced the successful sail-away of the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit for Egina deepwater oil filed from the SHI-MCI Yard, LADOL Island, Lagos.
According to a statement from the firm’s External Relations Manager, Charles Ebereonwu, the 330-metre long FPSO left the quayside on August 26 at exactly 5:00am to commence a three-day journey that will take her to the Egina field in oil mining lease (OML 130) located about 150km offshore the Niger Delta. The Egina FPSO is the largest FPSO ever installed in Nigeria.
“The sail away of the Egina FPSO to its final location offshore is a major milestone towards the completion of the project. With this achievement, we are on track for a start-up of the production by the end of this year. On this occasion, I wish to congratulate the Egina project team for the safe and timely completion of the onshore works in SHI-MCI yard. Let me also thank our partners on Egina – NNPC, SAPETRO, CNOOC and Petrobras – for their constant cooperation and the Nigerian authorities – DPR, NCDMB and NPA – for their support,” said Country Chair and Managing Director, Total E&P Nigeria Limited, Mr Nicolas Terraz.
Upon arrival, the mooring and hook-up operations will commence to connect the FPSO to the subsea facilities, before the start-up of production planned at the end of this year.
About seven months ago, Egina made history as the first FPSO unit to berth at an integration quay in Africa for the installation of six topside modules that were fabricated in Nigeria. During the seven months that the FPSO spent at LADOL, the team completed eight million man-hours without any Lost Time Injury (LTI).
