Rhino.5dm:
This is the biggest project to be executed in the history of Nigeria and kodus to Jonathan's administration for making it possible.

The sweetest part of this is, the government zeroed the expatriate quota on this project as part of the MoU to boast local contents i.e. nearly all the manpower and suppliers will be local. Very soon, all the jobless grown folks on nairaland will be no more (Afam4eva comes to mind)

Rhino.5dm:
This is the biggest project to be executed in the history of Nigeria and kodus to Jonathan's administration for making it possible.

berem: Rhinoceros, when the advertisement for vacancy starts, be kind enough to inform us please.

doncaster: You mean Kudos to retardenho? lemme read again to make sure. Thought I will never see these day.

Rhino.5dm:


Well, I'll surely see to this ASAP. But you have to be patient for a while cos according to the project gantt chart, major activities will take off from mid next year. KIV

Rhino.5dm:
This is the biggest project to be executed in the history of Nigeria and kodus to Jonathan's administration for making it possible.

The sweetest part of this is, the government zeroed the expatriate quota on this project as part of the MoU to boost local contents i.e. nearly all the manpower and suppliers will be local. Very soon, all the jobless grown folks on nairaland will be no more (Afam4eva comes to mind)

If you believe the bolded, then you can believe anything...

berem: Rhinoceros, when the advertisement for vacancy starts, be kind enough to inform us please.

Rhino.5dm:


Fool.

speeder: The way people call money this days, you'll think a one million owner is a poor man.

Okija_juju:

People are being employed daily.. But all Contract staff and the adverts are highly coded. Some can be found on Rigzone sha.. Most positions are for experts with experience levels of 8 years and above..

The Egina oil field is located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. The field is being developed by Total Upstream Nigeria (24%) in partnership with NNPC (10%), CNOOC (45%), Sapetro (5%) and Petrobras (16%). Egina is the third deep offshore development of Total in Nigeria. The field is currently under development and the production is scheduled to begin by 2014/2015.
Located about 20km away from Akpo field, Egina field lies within the block Oil Mining Lease OML 130 and covers an area of around 500 square miles. It is situated at a water depth of up to 1,750m.

Discovery

The field was discovered in December 2003 when the Egina-1 well was drilled. Following the discovery, the appraisal well Egina-2 was drilled in October 2004. The appraisal programme and seismic data processing resulted in the Egina-3 well drilling in September 2006, which occurred at a water depth of approximately 1,500m. Following this, Egina-4 was drilled in November 2006 and Egina-5 was drilled in January 2007.

Oil reserves

The five wells on Egina field encountered 60 to 80m of oil in Miocene sands. The oil reserves are estimated at 550 million barrels. The light oil is rated at 28° API.

Egina field development

The Egina field was initially planned to be developed as a subsea tieback to the Akpo floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). Major discoveries in the area, however, lead to the stand alone development of Egina.
Basic engineering studies of the field were begun in 2008. The development plan was approved by the Nigerian authorities in 2009. Pre-qualification tenders were invited for the engineering, procurement, construction and supply of essential generators packages. These packages will be integrated on a FPSO unit. The FPSO development project involves the design, procurement, construction, hook-up, pre-commissioning, transportation and commissioning of the FPSO hull and topsides.
The first comprehensive front end engineering design (FEED) was completed in July 2010 and carried out by J P Kenny and MCS Kenny.

Egina field infrastructure

"Egina includes an FPSO unit,
oil offloading terminal and various subsea production systems."
Egina field infrastructure includes an FPSO unit, an oil offloading terminal and subsea production systems such as risers, flowlines, umbilicals and subsea manifolds.
Total began the development of a new FPSO for the project. The FPSO will measure approximately 330m in length, 61m in width and 33.5m in depth, and is expected to have an oil storage capacity of approximately two million barrels. The FPSO will have topsides modules with a gross dry weight of 34,000t.

Contracts

In July 2009, Total awarded a FEED contract to Dover Engineering. Dover signed an agreement with J P Kenny and MCS Kenny to facilitate project delivery. The contract provides scope for the comprehensive design studies and engineering assessments, development of specifications, documentation and technology studies, and design of the umbilicals,flowlines, risers and the subsea production systems used in the field development."It is estimated that the field will produce 150,000 barrels of oil per day." Total has signed a major contract with Abbott Risk Consulting (ARC) in 2008 for safety engineering design studies on the Egina FPSO project. Under the contract, ARC is responsible for conducting fire risk analysis, explosion modelling, gas dispersion modelling and quantitative risk assessment. ARC will also carry out a range of other studies to conclude a number of design options. The engineering, procurement and construction contract of the Egina turbo-compressors is expected to be awarded between late 2010 and early 2011. The packages will be delivered to the FPSO fabrication site within two years of the contractual award.

Production

The Egina field is expected to come onstream by the end of 2014 or early 2015. The production from the Egina-5 well is estimated to reach 12,000 barrels per day.The oil field is estimated to reach a peak production rate of 150,000 barrels per day, while the new FPSO will have a production capacity of 200,000 barrels per day.

Okija_juju:


If you believe the bolded, then you can believe anything...

Rhino.5dm:


Dude, Look, there's a serious crackdown on these expatriates.

Initially, I thought the government officials are just bluffing as usual, until they refused us access to an expatriate we are seeking to employ from uk. They told us to advertise the job on a national for 3 weeks after which we can seek for an expatriate.

Bros..

Al I will tell you is to go and wait at the Total building by Eko Hotel. Thats where Egina Project is situated. Infact, its only Egina in that building. Try and count the number of Oyinbos versus Blacks that leave the building after work..

I read this and laughed. A colleague just started work in that building.. Says it feels like France when once you pass reception.

Total is still recruiting Oyinbos like crazy. Just this week.. 3 joined my project team. Meanwhile, no black has been recruited since I've been here o!

Okija_juju:


Bros..

Al I will tell you is to go and wait at the Total building by Eko Hotel. Thats where Egina Project is situated. Infact, its only Egina in that building. Try and count the number of Oyinbos versus Blacks that leave the building after work..

I read this and laughed. A colleague just started work in that building.. Says it feels like France when once you pass reception.

Total is still recruiting Oyinbos like crazy. Just this week.. 3 joined my project team. Meanwhile, no black has been recruited since I've been here o!

Okija_juju:


Bros..

Al I will tell you is to go and wait at the Total building by Eko Hotel. Thats where Egina Project is situated. Infact, its only Egina in that building. Try and count the number of Oyinbos versus Blacks that leave the building after work..

I read this and laughed. A colleague just started work in that building.. Says it feels like France when once you pass reception.

Total is still recruiting Oyinbos like crazy. Just this week.. 3 joined my project team. Meanwhile, no black has been recruited since I've been here o!

Rhino.5dm:


Well, I'll surely see to this ASAP. But you have to be patient for a while cos according to the project gantt chart, major activities will take off from mid next year. KIV

Rhino.5dm:


Stop muddling up things. Last year we had a project that requires 200 hundred engineers to do the FEED; normally this stage of the project will be carried out in Paris by French engineers.

But you know what? The local content guys forced us to recruit 110 local engineers, but there was an issue with competency of those to be employed locally; so the French guys came up an excuse of not getting the required level of experience as agreed on the contract document and all that and they got waiver to bring in some expatriates. They are looking for holes in the system to continue bringing in quacks as expatriates.


The battle is on, only if our authorities won't chicken out.

Well, I'm not conversant with the ops of Egina.. But all I know is that NAPIMS are jokers.

Competence abi.. Just the same way the Oyinbo that me and him are doing the exact same job on my project is more competent than I am and this deserves to earn my pay in 3 days..

All I know is that this local content quota they published is not the true situation on ground. #fact. Most of the blacks on Egina are support staff. Eko towers is there for anyone interested to verify to visit. 150 million Nigerians and we are not competent to handle certain positions.

My brother.. Fogerrabout..

CHESSBOARD:

Bros no talk wetin you no know ..... was there , been there and still there......which major activities wey d FPSO is on d way and most well drilled.... and dont go preaching to Nigerians that there is no expatriate quota....the EGM was my B ( mr patrick)..... and his "back to back" is a "oui mousieur " if you understand french and there r currently hundreds of them in that proj....Eko towers can help u count

So na all of us dey JV offshore..

Na Bernard wey just go be EGM back to back na.. And that dude was a world class douche bag.

doncaster: You mean Kudos to retardenho? lemme read again to make sure. Thought I will never see these day.