Lagos — History will be made
today, as the energy and maritime industry expect the $3.3 billion Egina
Floating
Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel to sail into Lagos, making
Nigeria the first in Africa to fulfill the local content integration.
For Total Upstream Nigeria
Limited (TUPNL), it's a mission accomplished, while the partners LADOL and
Samsung see it as a testament to local capacity. Others see it as a
breakthrough in the quest for local content, but the ultimate goal is that it
builds capacity and buoys Nigeria's oil production with 108,000 barrels per
day.
Egina FPSO is a giant oil
production ship operated by Total for the production of crude from its Egina
oil field deep offshore Nigeria. The vessel, which left South Korea on October
31, last year, is in Lagos for further integration of its six topsides at LADOL
Free Trade Zone, Tarkwa Bay, Lagos. The vessel had sailed for three months.
The Egina FPSO has a storage
capacity of 2.2 million barrels of crude oil and a daily production of 108,000
barrels per day capacity. It is 35 meters high, 330 meters long, with a flare
boom that is 100 meters high just as it has capacity to accommodate 200 people
at a time.
The Nigerian Ports Authority
(NPA) had threatened that it would not be allowed into Nigerian waters unless
the parties complied with its to wage laws.
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