Nigeria adds 50,000 b/d oil output from Total’s Ikike Field
Sopuruchi Onwuka
Nigeria’s sagging oil production capacity got a new verve of 50,000 barrels per day after French energy multinational, TotalEnergies, brought operated Ikike oilfied development online.
Ikike field commissioning would be a continuation of string of developments by TotalEnergies in the nation’s offshore terrain in the past decades after Amenam-Kpono, Akpo, Usan and Egina. The company is also driving the deepwater Porewei development to complete a clustered production hub in one oil field.
Country Spokesman, Dr Charles Ebereonwu, declared in a media statement that TotalEnergies commissioned the Ikike field in the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 99 area in the conventional offshore Niger Delta under an existing joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited.
TotalEnergies operates the joint venture with 40% stake in partnership with the NNPC Limited which holds overriding 60% stake on behalf of the federal government of Nigeria.
Located 20 kilometers off the coast, at a depth of about 20 meters, the Ikike platform is tied back to the existing Amenam offshore facilities through a 14 km multiphase pipeline.
Dr Ebereonwu said that Ikike will deliver peak production of 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by the end of 2022.
The Ikike project leverages existing facilities to keep costs low, and is designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
At less than 4.0 kilogrammes of carbon dioxide emission per barrel of oil equivalent (kg CO2e/boe), production at Ikike will contribute to reducing the average carbon intensity of TotalEnergies’ upstream portfolio, Dr Ebereonwu said.
The project, according to him also recorded significant 95 percent local content in the construction stage; with the jacket as well as the topside modules entirely built and integrated by local contractors.
According to the Senior Vice President Africa, Exploration and Production at TotalEnergies, Henri-Max Ndong-Nzue, “TotalEnergies is pleased to start production at Ikike, which was launched a few months before the covid pandemic, and whose success owes a lot to the full mobilization of the teams. By tapping discoveries close to existing facilities, this project fits the Company’s strategy of focusing on low-cost and low-emission oil projects.”
The Oracle Today reports that TotalEnergies has been present in Nigeria for more than 60 years. The company produced at an average output rate of 240 000 boe/d in 2021.
TotalEnergies also operates an extensive distribution network which includes about 540 service stations in the country.
Nigeria is one of the 130 countries where TotalEnergies and its 100,000 strong workforce produce and market energies including oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.
