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Global Petroleum enters
into next licence phase for
PEL0094 offshore Namibia
AIM-listed Global Petroleum has announced, in relation to its licence PEL0094 (Block 2011A) offshore Namibia, that the Ministry of Mines and Energy has agreed to Global’s proposal to enter into the next licence sub-period from September 2021 to September 2022.
Under the terms of the Petroleum Agreement for PEL0094 signed in September 2018, the four- year Initial Exploration Period (IEP) was split into two sub-periods of two years each, with the first sub-period ending in September 2020, subsequently extended to September 2021 with a reduced work programme.
Global further expects to apply for a one-year extension to the four-year IEP at the appropriate time. such extensions are commonly granted by the Ministry – for example, in the case of the Company’s previous Licence PEL0029.
The work commitment for the upcoming phase of the licence is to acquire and process 2,000 square km of 3D seismic data, a commit- ment which Global expects to fulfil via a farm- out. This new 3D seismic data would increase the chance of success of the Marula prospect and confirm the prospective resources in the eastern part of the licence, which were announced on January 26, 2021.
Peter Hill, Global Petroleum’s CEO, com- mented: “We would like to thank the Ministry of Mines and Energy and are delighted to move into the next licence phase on PEL0094 and to progressing work on what we believe is a highly prospective licence. The next few months are clearly the most exciting period in several years for petroleum exploration offshore Namibia, notably with Total’s upcoming Venus well, fol- lowed by the Shell well in PEL 0039.”
Global Petroleum, August 10 2021
NCDMB, TotalEnergies
celebrate load out of Ikike
AMD 2 module
Senior officials of the Nigerian Content Devel- opment and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), TotalEnergies Nigeria and the Department of Petroleum Resources on Saturday in Port Har- court, Rivers State celebrated the load out of the AMD 2 Module of the Ikike Development Pro- ject, describing it as another remarkable Nige- rian Content accomplishment by TotalEnergies Nigeria Ltd.
The AMD 2 Module is a component of the Brownfield package of the Ikike project, and the contractor is Sudelettra Nigeria Ltd. The project is being developed as a satellite tie-back to the Amenam-Kpono field, also owned and operated by the Total/NNPC JV.
Delivering his address at the load out cere- mony held at Sudelettra Fabrication Yard, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Simbi Kesiye Wabote lauded 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 hinted that Total’s local content milestones on the Egina FPSO project remains a reference point for major project promoters to date.
The Executive Secretary who was represented by the General Manager, Projects Certification and Authorisation Division, NCDMB, Paul Zuhumben noted that the Board and Total col- laborated 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% or 89,003 man-hours by Nigerian personnel and entire fabrication scope executed at Sudelettra Fabrication Yard, with Nigerians performing 98% of the 298,158 fabrication man-hours.
Other third-party services executed by Nige- rian companies with requisite facilities included NDT, GRP Piping, Laboratory Testing, among others.
Wabote assured that other work scopes on the Ikike platform would be domiciled in accord- ance with the agreed local content targets, to sustain the job creation drive of the Federal Gov- ernment. He said: “in line with the commitment of Total Energies in the signed Nigerian Con- tent Compliance Certificate (NCCC), hook-up engineering and tie-in services, inspections and integrity works, pre-commissioning and commissioning, marine activities would be exe- cuted with over 95 percent Nigerian personnel with locally owned equipment and assets. This is in keeping with the Board’s initiatives geared towards utilisation of Nigerian owned marine
assets and investments.”
The Executive Secretary further noted that
the AMD-2 Module provided an opportunity to carry out refresher oil and gas trainings for 57 personnel as well as trainings for 30 new per- sonnel. He requested the contractor and Total to retain the trainees in the remaining part of the Ikike project.
In his comments, the Executive Director, Total Energies, Port Harcourt District, Obi Imemba indicated that the entire Ikike project has recorded 77% overall progress and the con- struction of the modules-topsides, platforms, risers, jackets and all other packages were exe- cuted in various Nigerian yards by different ven- dors as approved by NCDMB. He added: “Our offshore campaigns are also being executed with vessels that are domiciled in Nigeria and the drilling is with Nigerian companies.”
He confirmed that the company had used the project to enable more than 30,000 jobs directly and indirectly, highlighting that all the aspects of the job were done with the spirit of promot- ing Nigerian Content and in collaboration with industry stakeholders.
The Executive Director also underscored the company’s commitment to developing a pipeline of oil and gas projects and supporting additional production potentials of Nigeria, adding that the company was keen to capitalise on all the lessons learnt from previous projects to develop the Ikike project in a simple, cost effective and efficient manner.
He recalled that the Final investment Deci- sion (FID) for the Ikike project was taken in 2019, with support of the partners and the AMD-2 Module started in 2020 and on comple- tion it weighed 250 tonnes.
He commended the contractor for delivering on the project despite the scourge of the COVID- 19 and economic challenges and for recording more than 500,000 manhours without any Loss Time Injury (LTI).
Imemba assured that the offshore compo- nents of the project were already in progress, including the installation of topsides, adding that that commissioning and celebration of first oil were expected early 2022.
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