Forcados Terminal Records Successful Safety Operations

The Forcados Termi
nal in the Western Niger Delta operated without a significant safety incident between September 2000 and September2014, during which some 1.25 billion barrels of oil passed through for facility that is operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operated joint venture.
“This is a significant achievement in a work environment that involves multi-disciplinary staff teams and contractors,” said the Managing Director, SPDC and Country Chairman Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mr Mutiu Summonu.
He said over the years, SPDC has improved work process and trained staff leading to the introduction of the Goal Zero initiative on safety.
“We are happy that the improvements continue to manifest not only at Forcados Terminal but also in other installation,” Summonu said.
The company noted in a statement that over the past 365 days, a number of high risk maintenance and engineering activities have also taken place at the Forcados Terminal, including rehabilitation of crude oil storage tanks, subsea repairs to the tanker loading system and upgrade to the jetty amongst others.
“The asset did not record any disruptions relating to these multiple concurrent activities which is also evidence of the sustained and proactive engagement of the host communities,” SPDC said.
The Forcados Terminal was inaugurated in 1971 and was upgraded between 1994 and 1998. The terminal receives treats, stores and exports crude oil produced by SPDC and other operators in the Western Niger Delta, and has an installed storage capacity of 6.3 million barrels of product.