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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Total launched an intensive drilling program in Nigeria on its Egina development. The firm will be keeping two rigs working away for a total of 3,000 days, drilling 44 wells.
The wells being drilled by Total are in water depths ranging from 1,400 to 1,700 meters.
“This is the deepest offshore project ever operated by Total,” comments Jean-Michel Guy, executive GM of the Egina Project. “With production of 200,000 bpd, it will contribute significantly to achieving Total’s 2017 production objectives.”
Total included a significant amount of local content into the Egina development, with several thousand local jobs being created and extensive local infrastructure (mainly yards) will be upgraded or built.
The Egina field was initially planned to be developed as a subsea tieback to the Akpo FPSO, however major discoveries made led to the company changing it to a standalone development. Egina field infrastructure will include an FPSO unit, an oil offloading terminal and subsea production systems such as risers, 52 km of oil and water injection flowlines, 12 flexible jumpers, 20 km of gas export pipelines, 80 km of umbilicals, and subsea manifolds.
Production is scheduled for around the end of 2017.
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