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LOCAL CONTENT
TotalEnergies Committed to Nigerian Content, Share
Best Practises for Intra-African Trade
T
otalEnergies is proudly committed to
local content development in Nigeria
and has been operating in the country
for almost 60 years.
At the 20th Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and
Exhibition (NOG), the Deputy Managing
Director, Deep Water District of TotalEnergies,
Mr. Victor Bandele made a keynote
presentation on “Expanding the Nigerian
Content Frontier through Intra-African Trade”.
Bandele was represented by the Executive
General Manager, Government Relations,
TotalEnergies, Nigeria, Olalere Babasola, said
that the NOG event provides opportunities for
operators to share best practices and industry
experiences which enables operator to learn
from one another, adapt and quickly take
actions that will sustain the industry.
Babasola revealed that TotalEnergies, as it is
presently called, has been present in Africa for
more than 80 years and has been involved in
exploration activities in Nigeria for almost 60
years now.
In the Upstream sector, the company has a
broad and diversified portfolio in Nigeria, with
activities spanning onshore, conventional
offshore, deep water and LNG. TotalEnergies is
proud of its strong partnership with the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) including various partners, over the
years.
The upstream branch plays a significant
economic and social role in Nigeria, operating
nearly 15% of the country’s production.
Nigeria, as one of the company’s core areas of
activities, is also crucial to the TotalEnergies
Group, accounting for 12 % of its equity
production.
In the last few years alone, TotalEnergies has
invested approximately 10 billion US dollars in
Nigeria. Through decades of executing
development projects, the company’s
activities have contributed to creating jobs and
developing human capacity in Nigeria.
Babasola explained that despite the
challenging environment that the company
operate in as an industry, TotalEnergies
remains committed to investing in the country
because it strongly believe in the potential of
Nigeria and Nigerians. This is why it has been
quite active in recent years even in the face of
understandable uncertainties. The company
completed Egina at the end of 2018 and has
been progressing well with the development of
Ikike project.
TotalEnergies Outstanding Projects:
3Egina Project
In 2013, three years after the Nigerian Oil & Gas
Industry Content Development Act became law,
TotalEnergies took the Final Investment
Decision to develop Egina.
The Egina field is located in Oil Mining Lease
OML 130 and is approximately 200km offshore
Nigeria. The offshore development comprises a
new build spread moored FPSO (330 x 61x
33.5m dimensions with 240 POB and 2.3MBBLs
storage capacity) connected through a sub-sea
production system to 44 wells (21 oil producers
and 23 water injectors) via Umbilicals, flowlines
and risers.
Egina is TotalEnergies’ third deep offshore FPSO
project in Nigeria after the successful delivery
of AKPO project (2009) and USAN project
(2012). These projects have brought
progressive increase in levels of Nigerian
Content, and Egina, being the first major project
launched after the enactment of the Nigerian
Oil & Gas Industry Content Development
(NOGICD) Act of 2010, has so far the highest
level of local content of any FPSO project in
Nigeria:
Employment in Nigeria during life of project: 47
million man-hours (77% of total project
workload).
3Fabrication: approximately 60,000 tons of
equipment fabricated in Nigeria.
600,000+ man-hours of human capacity
development training across Egina contracts.
Construction of new fabrication facilities and
quayside; Upgrade of existing fabrication
facilities.
On December 29, 2018, Egina first oil was
achieved with the opening of the first
production well on the South Loop. With a
capacity of 200,000 barrels of oil per day, Egina
has increased Nigeria’s oil production by 10%.
3Ikike Project
Ikike field development lies within Nigeria
offshore block OML 99 (Amenam-Kpono),
situated 20 km offshore, in 20m water depth
and approximately 15 km north of the Amenam
complex. It is outside the AMENAM unitized
area in joint venture partnership with NNPC
(NNPC-60% /TEPNG-40%).
The Ikike field is being developed as a satellite
tieback to Amenam. Despite its size and scope,
TotalEnergies Nigerian Content objectives for
Ikike are not any less ambitious.
The overall target is to achieve 90% Nigerian
Content on Ikike with 100% of project
management based in-country; 100% of
detailed & basic engineering in Nigeria; 100% of
procurement by local firms; 3,000 direct jobs;
Refresher/On-the-job training for 53 NCDMB
trainees; entry level training of 80 Geoscience
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