Total Energies’ Ikike Project To Create 3,000 Jobs

TotalEnergies, joint owners of the Ikike project has said it has boosted local content and created 3,000 direct and indirect jobs, through the construction of the Amenam Extension Module II (AMD2), comprising jacket, modules, topsides, risers in a Nigerian fabrication yard.
The Managing Director, TotalEnergies, Mr Mike Sangster, who spoke at the 250MT, AMD2, Sail-away ceremony at the Choba fabrication yard of Sudelettra Nigeria Limited, Port Harcourt, Saturday, said the Ikike development project, launched by the NNPC – TotalEnergies Joint-Venture (JV) and recalled that the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Ikike project was taken in January 2019, with support of the partners and that the AMD2 was coming on the heels of the Egina project as a promise kept by the company to Nigeria in the development of the oil and gas sector.
Represented by Executive Director, Total Energies Port Harcourt District, Mr Obi Imemba, Sangster noted that the Ikike project was a tie- back reservoir to the existing Amenam field in OML99, adding that it would add an increased production of 32,000 barrels of oil per day, by drilling five new wells including water injection.
According to him, TotalEnergies aims to “develop the Ikike reservoirs as tie-back to existing Amenam field with incremental production of 32000 barrels per day of oil by drilling 5 new wells including water injection. Capitalise on lessons learnt from previous projects (OFON2, OML 58 Upgrade) to assure development with strategy fit for context, maximum local content at sustainable cost, simplified design, economic and fast execution to first oil to create a template for future similar developments of TotalEnergies”.
He expressed optimism, saying that, “TotalEnergies transforming into a broad energy company whose production and sales mix will be evolving from predominant oil production today such that by 2030: 50% gas; 35% oil and liquid biofuels; 15% electricity, mostly renewable. By 2050 the mix will be 40% renewable power, 40% gas and 20% liquid products. TotalEnergies Nigeria is committed to aligning with the national aspirations for maximising existing energies and evolutions necessary in the coming years”
Emphasising the local content component, the Project Manager of Ikike Project, Total Energies, Mr Modestus Nwosu stated that over 44 Nigerian vendors were engaged in various capacities of the project, adding that the project also undertook the renovation of a hostel and workshops in Government Technical College, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Also speaking, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, commended TotalEnergies for being a worthy partner in local content development since the enactment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act in 2010.
He observed that TotalEnergies’s local content milestones on the Egina FPSO project remained a reference point for major project promoters in the industry.
The Executive Secretary who was represented by the General Manager, Projects Certification and Authorisation Division, NCDMB, Engr. Paul Zuhumben, noted that the board and TotalEnergies collaborated at the beginning of the Ikike project to earmark high local content commitments and targets which had now yielded fruits.
He listed some of the pace-setting statistics of the AMD-2 Module to include all engineering design works domiciled in Nigeria with 93 percent or 89,003 man-hours by Nigerian personnel and entire fabrication scope executed at Sudelettra Fabrication Yard, with Nigerians performing 98 percent of the 298,158 fabrication man-hours and with zero lost man hour.
While assuring that other work scopes on the Ikike platform would be domiciled in accordance with the agreed local content targets, to sustain the job creation drive of the federal government, Wabote pointed out that other third-party services executed by Nigerian companies with requisite facilities included NDT, GRP Piping, Laboratory Testing, among others.
He said, “In line with the commitment of TotalEnergies in the signed Nigerian Content Compliance Certificate (NCCC), hook-up engineering and tie-in services, inspections and integrity works, pre-commissioning and commissioning, marine activities would be executed with over 95 percent Nigerian personnel with locally owned equipment and assets. This is in keeping with the board’s initiatives geared towards utilization of Nigerian owned marine assets and investments.”

By: Tonye Nria-Dappa