Total’s massive Egina FPSO vessel arrived at Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) on January 25. The Egine FPSO arrived at the Port of Lagos, following a ninety-day journey from Korea.
The FPSO left the SHI shipyard Geoje on 31st and travelled for 3 months in order to arrive in Nigeria. From there the remaining topside module integration and commissioning will take place for the FPSO to delivered in the second half of 2018.
Egina FPSO will be the biggest ship in West Africa, and one of the world’s biggest. The facility features 30m in length, 61m in breadth, and 34m high. It also has the capacity of 2.3 million barrels of storage with topsides weighing 60,000 tons.
The FPSO will be installed in Egina offshore field, 200km off Nigerian shores.
Egina FPSO complies with the Nigerian local content regulations, and a portion of the topsides fabrication and integration is to be completed in Nigeria.
The arrival of the TOTAL Nigeria Egina FPSO to LADOL Free Zone is an historic milestone for industrialisation in Nigeria, as shown by the presence of the Nigerian Ports Authority Managing Director Hadiza Bala Usman on the site.