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This facility will eventually have two production and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp.
trains, each with a capacity of 6.44mn tonnes per (JOGMEC), which have a combined stake
year (tpy). of 20%; Mozambique’s national oil company
The French major serves as operator of the (NOC) ENH, with 15%; BPCL, with 10%;
Mozambique LNG consortium through its sub- ONGC Videsh (India), with 10%; Beas Rovuma
sidiary Total E&P Mozambique Area 1, which Energy Mozambique (a 60:40 joint venture
holds a 26.5% stake. between ONGC Videsh and Oil India Ltd, or
The remaining equity in the consortium is OIL), with 10%; and PTTEP (Thailand), with
split between two Japanese companies, Mitsui 8.5%. ™

Bonga FPSO due to go off line

for maintenance in October

NIGERIA SHELL Nigeria Exploration and Production Co. the heads of SNEPCo’s key service contractors.
Ltd (SNEPCo) is preparing to take the floating “But more important is carrying out the turn-
production, storage and offloading (FPSO) ves- around safely. That is what keeps me awake at
sel installed at the Bonga oilfield offshore Nige- night. It is our top priority as a company, and we
ria offline for a turnaround maintenance (TAM) promote this by encouraging our staff and con-
programme in October. tractors to speak up and work only if it is safe. It
SNEPCo announced its plans in a statement is the only way your organisations can thrive as
cited by Business Hallmark on September 19, they work to ensure the safe delivery of services
saying that the 200,000-barrel per day (bpd) for Bonga’s rebirth.”
FPSO would remain idle while maintenance The statement also quoted Jonathan Ama-
work proceeded. It did not say exactly how kiri, SNEPCo’s senior asset management inte-
long the work was expected to last, but Business gration lead, as saying at the same meeting that
Hallmark noted that the last such episode, which the company had made a deliberate choice with
took place in May 2020, had taken two weeks. respect to its priorities. SNEPCo wants to work
TAM programmes typically involve efforts to together with its contractors to ensure that all
ensure the integrity of critical assets and to check parties are in alignment on the need for safety,
for statutory compliance, it added. compliance, speed of execution and excellence,
Abimbola Essien-Nelson, SNEPCo’s media he stated.
relations manager, said the company’s Managing Bonga is the first Nigerian oilfield to begin
Director Elohor Aiboni had recently described production in waters more than 1,000 metres
the maintenance programme as necessary to deep. It came on stream in 2005 and is being
ensure the safety and structural integrity of the developed under a production-sharing con-
FPSO, which extracts oil from one of Nigeria’s tract (PSC). Equity in the project is split between
major deepwater oilfields. SNEPCo, the operator, with 55%; a subsidiary
“The Bonga TAM is important to revital- of ExxonMobil (US), with 20%; a subsidiary of
ise this important critical national asset,” she TotalEnergies (France), with 12.5%; and a sub-
quoted Aiboni as saying during a meeting with sidiary of Eni (Italy), with 12.5%. ™

The Bonga FPSO is capable of handling 200,000 bpd of oil (Photo: Shell)

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