FPSO sails out for Egina field off Nigeria

Aug. 28, 2018
One of the world’s largest floating production, storage, and offloading vessels has sailed away from a fabrication and integration yard in Lagos for installation on ultradeepwater Egina oil field offshore Nigeria.

One of the world’s largest floating production, storage, and offloading vessels has sailed away from a fabrication and integration yard in Lagos for installation on ultradeepwater Egina oil field offshore Nigeria.

The field, on the OML 130 license operated by Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd., will produce 200,000 b/d of crude oil from 44 wells in 1,400-1,700 m of water 130 km offshore.

Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria Ltd. (SHI) built the FPSO at its Goeje yard in South Korea and moved it to Lagos late last year (OGJ Online, Nov. 2, 2017). It built the SHI-MCI yard there in a joint venture with a local company, completing the facility in October 2016.

The FPSO is 330 m long, 61 m wide, and 34 m tall. It weighs 220,000 tonnes, with topsides weighing 60,000 tonnes. Storage capacity is 2.3 million bbl.