Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria Limited (SHIN) says it has successful achieved the first oil on the 200,000 barrels per day-capacity Egina Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) unit.
The FPSO achieved first Oil on December 29, 2018, after the global shipbuilding firm successfully completed the mooring, hook-up and required offshore commissioning of the floating vessel.
In a statement by the company, this volume of onshore and offshore work had never been accomplished in Nigeria before now.
According to the company, “With all these accomplished, the high-risk portion of the Egina project has now been completed. This achievement have been followed by very good response from Nigerian authorities, international clients and earned major headlines in the press. This leads SHI to gain competitive edge in future offshore project orders in West Africa, of course including Nigeria.”
The Egina FPSO, one of the world’s largest FPSO, and indeed the largest FPSO ever deployed by the Total Group, was built for the French oil giant by SHIN.
Production from Egina field of 200,000 barrels per day at peak will increase Nigerian current crude oil production by 10 percent.
Since Egina FPSO arrived at its offshore location on August 29 from the fabrication and integration yard in Lagos, SHIN has worked towards successfully achieving this challenging goal of achieving First Oil in 2018, as agreed by all parties.
The Korean giant also completed the FPSO mooring well in advance – completed on September 17,2018 against target date of September 23, 2018, riser hook-up activities and required offshore commissioning, putting an exemplary effort in achieving First Oil in 2018.
The company had also successfully completed the FPSO work in SHI-MCI yard before it continued its work offshore under strict Nigerian local content regulations with similar safety and quality standards applicable in the company’s Geoje shipyard in Korea.
The statement says “We are very proud to announce the successful achievement of First oil in 2018, which is adding another feather in our cap, subsequent to our completion of the first ever Nigerian Onshore Integration works for EGINA FPSO with thorough preparation in compliance with Nigeria Local Content.”
“Samsung is confident of successfully completing the remaining offshore commissioning works and handover of Egina FPSO to our client Total along with its partners (NNPC, CNOOC, SAPETRO and PETROBRAS on schedule, through close co-operation and support from all relevant Nigerian Government Agencies including NNPC, NAPIMS, NCDMB, NPA, NEPZA, NIMASA, NIS, DPR, etc., with Highest levels of Safety and quality control.”
SHIN won the order to build the Egina FPSO in 2013 and the facility is currently installed on the offshore field, located 150 km off the coast of Nigeria.
The mega facility is 330 metres in length, 61metres in breadth, and 34metres in height. It boasts 200,000 barrels of production per day at the peak and 2.3 million barrels storage capacity with topsides weighing 60,000 tonnes.
The new-build FPSO contract was a turnkey project in which SAMSUNG covered the entire engineering, design, procurement, construction, transportation and commissioning
