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Thursday, May 21, 2015
GE Oil & Gas has completed the first refurbishment of subsea production trees at its service base in Onne, Nigeria. This marks a milestone for the company and the country as it was the first time subsea production trees had been fully refurbished in Nigeria.
The subsea production trees contract work was awarded to the company by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo.)
COO of GE Oil & Gas in Nigeria, Uzo Nwagwu said the GE team of trained Nigerian engineers successfully disassembled the subsea trees to component parts before repairing and rebuilding them in accordance with customer requirements. The refurbishment program includes incoming deck-testing and an integrated performance test after refurbishment.
Nwagwu said: “The development demonstrates GE’s commitment to localizing operations in Nigeria through capacity development, technology transfer and capital investment. This is resulting in the creation of high quality employment in the O&G sector in Nigeria.”
In support of this program, last year, GE Oil & Gas unveiled the recruitment of 30 engineers and technicians, some of whom were sent to GE facilities in Brazil for training. Where they acquired the skillsets required to support tree repair and for local assembly and testing of new equipment. Thousands of man-hours and hundreds of spare parts, procured by the local team, were used in the refurbishment of the first tree. More than $1.5 million was spent with Nigerian sub-suppliers supporting various parts of the workscope for each tree.
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