₦airaland Forum

techmatas:
Korea has taken over the Business of FPSO building in recent time Both SHI and HHI seems to dominate the industry.

The reason this is so is because apart from the technology-know-how, shipyards struggle with soaring steel prices. When compared, the ralative cheaper cost of Grade A steel ( Per ASTM Grading System ) in Asia makes the market more viable for the ASIA market.

some few years ago after the fall of the deepwater market in Nigeria, when the whole driil ships and semi left, I moved into shipbuilding, worked with an European shipbuilding giant. Guess what? while all the techology were complete european however, we worked from an asia yard in vietnam! just to reduce labour and steel cost. even sister projects in romania were being transferred to asian yard. That was about the time the Nigeria FG was building some vessels for the NPA and Nigeria Navy.

Years later, i moved to ULSAN under (Hyundai Mipo Dockyard) HMD not HHI. Still on the same case, while it is the biggest shipyard in the world it boils down to their ability to access cheaper still (not less value though) and their engineering diversity.

Engineering dieversity in the sense that more than half of the critical equipment and machinery on board these assets are built and designed by them. i would have love to showcase what we call owners furnished equipment (OFE) list but cant for obvious reasons. There in you would see clearly the need for Nigeria to have integrated engineering companies to stay afloat in the ship construction business. For it is more than just having shipyards on coastlines which we already have enough!

Our local content in Nigeria is all talk, no blames seriously (dont get me wrong)! Truth is u cant guve what u dont have, our interpretation of local content is all about human resources and not local technology. I have worked entensively with the west atlantic shipyard at Onne, yes we have local resourced personnel trained to handle the machines and read/interprete engineering designs but the day u dont get that spare from overseas, the workers would have to seat and wait for it! if cummis, NIGATA, siemens, RollsRoyce or CAT aint supplying you that engine bro u cant do nothing about it! you cant even rebuild an engine without spares from overseas, so what is the noise about local content. I know some fellow in the hood who worked on the topside for Egina project, those guys have been abandoned since egina left lagos, some don enter street dey press because Nigeria does not have the local technology to keep them engaged. no be to operate sand blasting or chipping abi na to do pipefitting be ship construction o! local content is more to that! a simple example, virtually all the dynamic positioned vessels in Nigeria is working with Konsberg technology. That is what is called local content for the Norwegian people, u cant run a DP vessel in Nigeria without them.

an advise to Nigeria, leave FPSO construction. start now and actively to master dry-docking.... let me ask this stupi.d question:- where would all these FPSO in Nigeria go for their dry docking exercise when due for their mandatory class special renewal Namibia, cape town or back to Ulsan?

I knew what i saw at durign the last symp leg repair at the Sea Eagle, same thing about to happen for the BONGA TAM coming up this year ending circa Oct 2022. I would be participating in BONGA again, buy not in the capacity i honestly would have wished for.

Lastly, its all about business for NIgeria and not about sustainability, otherwise we would have siezed the Bull itself and not just taking it by the horn



Presently in Ulsan for my second tour....

fiizznation:
El Rufai is at the forefront of this Muslim - muslim ticket because he wants to be tinubu's VP. I'm a muslim myself and I will never support any injustice. An already divided country like Nigeria doesn't need more division. If buhari couldn't run with a muslim-muslim ticket, I don't see how tinubu will succeed. APC can't tell us they can't find any northern Christian to be tinubu's VP.

Funny; And this was exactly what the chairman was trying to avoid. Had it been APC gave it's ticket to Amaechi or osibanjo, all this muslim-muslim ticket won't have arise in the first place.

Fizzy is that you?!

saintkeppy:
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Yeah, thats my focus, Offshore Tech/Subsea Engineering that's where the PetroDollar$ is

Shallow water is not longer profitable. I think Shell sold off their shallow water assets, same as ExxonMobil, infact i heard Exxon have left leaving Mobil, assets sold to SeplatNigeria.
Nigeria account to about 40% or more of Africa's deployments of FPSO mostly from HHI, South Korea &the other one in Singapore. I think Angola should come 2nd in Africa as the highest producer next to Nigeria.

More Deepwater field are being discovered by these IOCs. That's why you need to update yourself academically with the required skillsets to man such sophisticated FPSO in Ultra-deepwaters with unfriendly weather conditions.

MSC in Offshore Tech or Subsea Engineering in foreign Universities will put you in a good position if you can afford the fees.
Attending short courses on these areas can help as well.

The bolded is just a broad term. To cash out, just go do ROV. Find employment with those oceanering people. Ur work na video game for control room, ur salary na bomb

saintkeppy:
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FPSO is expensive to acquire, Usan cost Total over $1B or so, my friend's elder bro was in HHI, Ulsan S.Korea procurement &naming ceremony.
Assets on shallow water are being sold to Indigenous Exploration/Producing Companies to handle, e.g ExxonMobil will soon be known as SeplatMobil, Exxon sold off its asset to Seplat Energy.

Angola is doing great.
Yes our Nigerian Engineers do go there to Angola to work, most especially experienced Drillers&Well completions Engineers.

That Sh#t was cancelled last month
Aso rock no gree

Happy to say I have supported in one way or the other all deepwater projects in Nigeria....


Well there is more to life than that!


Relatively speaking, FPSO work na plug and play...where deepwater gets interesting is the exploration and drilling phase. That andrinaline rush to kill a well when it takes kick and about to blow out!

Choke line and sh#t, pump man go dey misjudged PSI, drill fluid go loose viscosity, return line go flood! Nonsense crew go push everything overboard before Toolpusher and company man go show. OiM go dey write report up and down dey find whom him run-off. How many await Tuesday morning, stay 5 hours for galley still caverton go yarn dust<waiting in weather> chopper no go show, no crew change till Thursday
You are out Thursday evening after a nasty flight between 3 fields, arrive NAF base, groove town small only for u to miss your rig after 7 days !!!!
U need to go back onboard....for a driller is always a driller ! As nothing for town dey interest u again .


Oh! Glory!!!
The long days of Global Santafe

oneolajire:
She no be hausa, she is from Auchi Edo State, do your googling well.

Did I say she was from the North
Do u have comprehension problems or what exactly ?
E be like say to talk dey sweet u abi? If I wooze u slap from here!

Dennisbulkan:
Mumu talk, North have elected more women in political office than south. Do your home work & stop disgracing your block head.

Did I say she was from the North
Do u have comprehension problems or what exactly ?
Abeg carry ur frustrated live comot my mention make ogun no go kill u o!

ThankGodFriday:
She's a southerner
Will Peter Obi chose his vice from southern Nigeria?

Did I say she was from the North
Do u have comprehension problem or what exactly

favour32:
Please,be updated.
She is from South.

Did I say she was from the North
Do u have comprehension problems or what exactly

WiszyFraud:
Did you know??



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Correct advise
Because of free radicals

Aisha Yesufu dey find Vice President post

That one na own goal oooo
Hausa no dey vote woman ooo, if not aisha buhari for win tinubu

DarlingtonC:
Yeah its V8, and I'm sure I'm getting a very reliable mechanic for it

most times, when u use the right oil and filter / doing the service at the very right time.
u no suppose get mechanic number.

RealityKings:
looks like all these "get -away-robbery car''.
its a cool looking vehicle tho

u don too watch oyibo film

Lol

There is no yellow girl in that country or what?

Obi is going back to pdp
Call me when that is done

Please be calming down

vesselchino:
Justice for Tinubu

After our 75 million donation?

We no go gree o
We no go gree ���
Somebody should hold Tinubu right now.

He should go collect all the monies and bags of rice he has been donating since sha

ARE THEY PAID TO VOTE OR PAID TO WEAR THE CAP?

Eriokanmi:
Which investigations do you need again? Did you watch the video in which one fulani man lurking around the church immediately after the attack with an Ak47 in his hand, who was disarmed by the brave policeman and killed by the mob after collecting his gun ? A lady's voice was heard calling Mr Asiwaju to stay away from the scene in owo dialect. Google is your friend. Watch the video.

They shouldn't have killed him, they should have kept him to reveal their sponsors

BRO
THAT VIDEO IS NOT FROM NIGERIA
GOOGLE IS ACTUALLY YOUR FRIEND INDEED!!!

JAWBONE:
Why is this not on FrontPage yet?

May their souls Rest In Peace

It is not on front page because seun is a known and established coward!!!

Is this all about the money ?
Niccur is cashing out now, hatchet can be buried uh?!

Realteeyee123:
A friend is selling this thinking of buying it he said 160k iphone Xsmax

Should I go for it?

When u get to Canada
You can get a any iPhone u want with about $20 per month plan for some years after paying some down payment like $300-400.

In my opinion that is better for u except u are the type that would like to update phones when ever iPhone releases a new one.

Tonymegabush1:
Android no dey work for abroad

Not all of them

pmc01:
It's an Igbo thing not to take issues of "respect" too seriously.

Coming from a twart who has never been beyond the Niger or out of Osun state.

I sincere hope Jabir gives you the "respect" you deserve

Lol

are these old men students.....

jhydebaba:
Private school - YES
Govt School - NO

Jastech

Take the above very very serious

That fire would never stop on its own!
They need to engage a land drilling rig to drill a directional well from another location and kill the initial well by way of pumping concrete to seal off and plug the well.

This was exactwhat was done after the deepwater horizon incident in the gulf of Mexico.

Any other thing is shear waste of time and natural resources

1stGenAmerican:
If your friend really works for Mobil in Canada then the tough life he tells you about must be due to the weather otherwise, he is telling lies.
I often laugh because those in the diaspora never start sharing ‘truth and experiences’ until things go sour for them or they feel threatened by too many Nigerians wishing to move abroad and have a comfortable lifestyle like theirs.

read that post again
I am not sure his friend works in Mobil canada

lol

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggar

Wizkid and burna boy my nigggees.. ...see enough smoking.....imagine two exhaust dey together....everywhere go be smoke

My niggggggggeeeeeeeeessssss

The fans of that untalented frogged voice who uses too much voice enhancer in the studio and still dish out dogg shit crap songs won't love this

Double exhaust