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Samsung Heavy’s Egina FPSO vessel arrives in Nigeria for assembly

Collected: 2018.01.26

Distributed: 2018.01.29

Source: Go Direct

[Photo provided by Samsung Heavy Industries Co.]

Samsung Heavy Industries Co.’s floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility Egina, which would be the world’s largest of its kind, arrived in Nigeria on Thursday, 84 days after leaving its Geoje shipyard on October 31, 2017.

The South Korean shipbuilder announced Thursday that it plans to deliver the FPSO in the latter half after putting its main body from Korea and the topside manufactured in Nigeria together and conducting test drive at its production base in Lagos, Nigeria.

It established the production base commanding a 120,000-square-meter area in Lagos in partnership with local companies, and has been producing topside modules to be installed on the Egina FPSO since June 2015 to comply with the Nigeria’s Local Content act that requires a portion of construction to be completed in the country.

The Korean shipbuilder won the $3 billion project, the largest-ever FPSO order in the world, to construct the FPSO from French oil major Total in 2013. The 60,000-ton vessel with a length of 330 meters, width of 61 meters and height of 34 meters, which is also the world’s largest in size, has a storage capacity of 2.3 million barrels and will be operated at the Egina oil field some 200 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria.

Samsung Heavy bagged the order on a turnkey contract in which the builder is responsible for entire engineering, procurement, construction, transport and commissioning. An official from Samsung Heavy said the successful delivery of the project would help it secure other offshore projects in Nigeria and West Africa.

By Woo Je-yoon and Choi Mira

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