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NCDMB, TotalEnergies Celebrate Load Out of Ikike
...project creates 30,000 jobs, first oil in 2022
AMD 2 Module
Senior officials of the Nigerian
C o n t e n t D e v e l o p m e n t a n d
Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Total
Energies Nigeria and the Department of
Petroleum Resources on Saturday in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State celebrated the load
out of the AMD 2 Module of the Ikike
Development Project, describing it as
another remarkable Nigerian Content
accomplishment by Total Energies Nigeria
Ltd.
The AMD 2 Module is a component of the
Brownfield package of the Ikike project, and
the contractor is Sudelettra Nigeria Ltd. The
project is being developed as a satellite tieback
to the Amenam-Kpono field, also
owned and operated by the Total/NNPC JV.
Delivering his address at the load out
ceremony held at Sudelettra Fabrication
Yard, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB,
Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote lauded Total
Energies for being a worthy partner in Local
Content development since the enactment
of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content
Development (NOGICD) Act in 2010. He
hinted that Total’s local content milestones
on the Egina FPSO project remains a
reference point for major project promoters
to date.
The Executive Secretary who was
represented by the General Manager,
Projects Certification and Authorization
Division, NCDMB, Engr. Paul Zuhumben
noted that the Board and Total collaborated
at the beginning of the Ikike project to
earmark high local content commitments
and targets which had now yielded fruits.
He listed some of the pace-setting statistics
of the AMD-2 Module to include all
engineering design works domiciled in
Nigeria with 93 percent or 89,003 man-hours by
Nigerian personnel and entire fabrication scope
executed at Sudelettra Fabrication Yard, with
Nigerians performing 98 percent of the 298,158
fabrication man-hours.
Other third-party services executed by Nigerian
companies with requisite facilities included NDT,
GRP Piping, Laboratory Testing, among others.
Wabote assured that other work scopes on the
Ikike platform would be domiciled in accordance
with the agreed local content targets, to sustain
the job creation drive of the Federal Government.
He said: “in line with the commitment of Total
Energies in the signed Nigerian Content
Compliance Certificate (NCCC), hook-up
engineering and tie-in services, inspections and
integrity works, pre-commissioning and
commissioning, marine activities would be
executed with over 95 percent Nigerian
personnel with locally owned equipment and
assets.
“This is in keeping with the Board’s initiatives
geared towards utilization of Nigerian owned
marine assets and investments.”
The Executive Secretary further noted that the
AMD-2 Module provided an opportunity to carry
out refresher oil and gas trainings for 57
personnel as well as trainings for 30 new
personnel. He requested the contractor and Total
to retain the trainees in the remaining part of the
Ikike project.
In his comments, the Executive Director, Total
Energies, Port Harcourt District, Mr. Obi Imemba
indicated that the entire Ikike project has
recorded 77 percent overall progress and the
construction of the modules-topsides, platforms,
risers, jackets and all other packages were
executed in various Nigerian yards by different
vendors as approved by NCDMB. He added that
“Our offshore campaigns are also being executed
with vessels that are domiciled in Nigeria and the
drilling is with Nigerian companies.”
He confirmed that the company had used the
project to enable more than 30,000 jobs directly
and indirectly, highlighting that all the aspects of
the job were done with the spirit of promoting
Nigerian Content and in collaboration with
industry stakeholders.
The Executive Director also underscored the
company’s commitment to developing a pipeline
of oil and gas projects and supporting additional
production potentials of Nigeria, adding that the
company was keen to capitalize on all the lessons
learnt from previous projects to develop the Ikike
project in a simple, cost effective and efficient
manner.
He recalled that the Final investment Decision
(FID) for the Ikike project was taken in 2019, with
support of the partners and the AMD-2 Module
started in 2020 and on completion it weighed 250
tons.
He commended the contractor for delivering on
the project despite the scourge of the COVID-19
and economic challenges and for recording more
than 500,000 manhours without any Loss Time
Injury (LTI).
Imemba assured that the offshore components of
the project were already in progress, including
the installation of topsides, adding that that
commissioning and celebration of first oil were
expected early 2022.
The Project Manager of Ikike Project, Total
Energies, Mr. Modestus Nwosu confirmed that
over 44 Nigerian vendors were engaged on
various scopes of the Ikike project. He added that
the project had also followed the instruction of
the Board to undertake the renovation of a hostel
and workshops in Government Technical College
in Port Harcourt, River State.
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