Lagos, Nigeria | – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, TUPNI and her partners have concluded plans to move the Egina Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO) to site in December this year.
The planned movement of the facility is based on the expected completion of integration, currently on-going at Ladol in Lagos. In a recent statement, Total indicated that the facility arrived Nigeria from South Korea in January this year according to Nigerian daily newspaper, Vanguard.
It stated: “The FPSO which is 330-metres long berthed at the newly built (under the Egina project) 500-metre FPSO integration quayside at the SHI-MCI Yard, Ladol island, Lagos where the integration of locally fabricated modules – a first for Nigeria and in fact Africa- will take place over the next few months.”
“Egina is the largest investment project currently on-going in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria. The project is expected to be completed in Q4 – 2018 within the initial budget of 16 Billion USD,’’ the statement added.
