Inception:
Talk of Good news for the Oil & Gas Industry!

News | Nigeria
Nigeria set to boost oil production as Agip begins $13.5b project
By Collins Olayinka, Abuja | 03 April 2017 | 5:37 am
• Nigerians need three million cooking gas cylinders yearly, says NCDMB

Nigeria is set to boost her daily production of crude oil as the Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE) begins work on Zabazaba deep water project that is expected to gulp $13.5 billion. The oil giant will begin to receive commercial proposals for the project this month (April).

The request for commercial tenders from bidders followed the finalisation of the technical evaluation for the main packages of the project by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and NAE, with the aim to maximize local content. The packages included the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units, subsea, installation and rigs.


The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Simbi Wabote, explained that the board fast tracked its evaluations and approvals on the Zabazaba project to increasing Nigeria’s crude oil production and creating opportunities for the growth and development of Nigerian content.
To bring the project to fruition, Wabote admonished contractors to submit reasonable commercial bids, bearing in mind the prevailing price of crude oil and the fact that Zabazaba is the only major project that has reached execution stage at the moment. The deep-water project was introduced a few years ago, but later suspended after cost projections and other push backs made it unviable.

The Vice Chairman of NAE, Mr. Massimo Insulla underscored the importance of Zabazaba project to Nigeria, all Joint Venture (JV) partners and stakeholders in terms of revenue for the government and job creation. It will also grow small and medium enterprises, expand existing facilities and develop the skills set of the work force.

The project is expected to develop oil and gas reserves in the range of 560 million barrels of oil equivalent. According to NAE’s project plans, the Zabazaba field will be developed initially. The Etan field will follow three years later and tied back to the Zabazaba FPSO from where the produced hydrocarbons will be processed and exported.

Wabote also said that Nigerians need three million liquefied petroleum gas also, known as cooking gas cylinders, annually.He said the only LPG cylinder manufacturing company in the country located at Isheri in Ogun, has the capacity to produce only 400,000 cooking gas cylinders yearly.

He said this was far below what Nigerian homes required annually, adding that this had encouraged the in-flow of substandard and expired LPG cylinders into the country. Wabote said in order to stop this, the board had conceived what he called “the local manufacture of liquefied gas cylinders’ initiative.”

http://guardian.ng/news/nigeria-set-to-boost-oil-production-as-agip-begins-13-5b

Naijalabel:
Zabazaba

omololu2020:
where is it located

Dauraking:
Is the proposed $13.5 billion investment on the two cups of Lagos Oyiiil or half cup of Bauchi and Maiduguri Oei? My gut feeling tells me that I t's the usual Niger Delta Oyel that the Zoo is eyeing. That's after trying to run Tompolo out of town and staging foolish Operation Crocodile Smile where the Zoo Army cried and drowned . The Zoo and the Lizard are learning the hard lessons in governance. You can't invade people to appropriate their resources without receiving a bloody nose.

mrvitalis:
Mehn I need 2.8 million to run my IWE program

Am sure we don't have up to 200 welding engineers in Nigeria ...mehn this is chance for me ..let's keep hustling nah ..maybe before this year ends we can hit that amount

Dauraking:
Is the proposed $13.5 billion investment on the two cups of Lagos Oyiiil or half cup of Bauchi and Maiduguri Oei? My gut feeling tells me that I t's the usual Niger Delta Oyel that the Zoo is eyeing. That's after trying to run Tompolo out of town and staging foolish Operation Crocodile Smile where the Zoo Army cried and drowned . The Zoo and the Lizard are learning the hard lessons in governance. You can't invade people to appropriate their resources without receiving a bloody nose.

hucienda:
When will the project likely come onstream? 2020? 2022?

Is the journalist sure it's a JV since it's a deepwater project?

Inception:


It is expected to produce first oil in 2020. The Etan project will come online 3 years later as a tieback to the zabazaba field

aminho:
ptdf has trained more than 500 i met some of them im france last year

majekdom2:
Good one. Bonga SW/ Aparo is next

deepwater:


Bonga south west is on already, rigs coming in early 4th quarter this year. PSVs to support the rigs are being sourced as I type this.