National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Director of Business Development, Babajide Agunbiade MNSE, Ph.D, talks to Africa Oil & Power about the company’s ongoing flexible pipeline projects across Ghana, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Angola with an emphasis on local content development.
What have been National Oilwell Varco’s (NOV) key achievements across its sub-Saharan markets?
NOV has maintained its position as the leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of equipment and components used in the sub-Saharan African (SSA) energy industry by pursuing purposeful innovation and fostering a service-first culture. Our primary achievements include: Successful local fabrication of steel bend restrictors in Ghana for both Eni and Tullow Oil.
Successful local fabrication and delivery of the offloading buoy for the Total Egina Project in Nigeria.
Successful delivery of Tullow Greater Jubilee offloading buoy in Ghana.
Successful delivery of flexible pipes across SSA with no failures.
Provision of cutting edge technology to enhance optimization in the operations of IOCs and EPCI companies across the region. An example is NOV’s subsea water injection technology, Seabox, which continues to receive praise from IOCs.
Continuous successful R&D to develop new solutions that can operate in ultra deep water systems that can withstand extreme internal pressures and materials capable of operational at lowest and highest temperatures
Installing the first and only flexible pipeline system in Swamp with Shell at the Odidi field.
In terms of ongoing 2020 flexible pipeline projects across the sub-Saharan region, NOV is currently supplying a flexible pipeline system and ancillary products to the G19 Replacement and Okume field in Equatorial Guinea for Trident Energy, and to Senegal’s Sangomar Field Development for Subsea 7. We are fulfilling Offshore Riser Integrity Monitoring for Eni’s Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) project and a Greater Jubilee Framework Agreement on a call-off basis for Tullow Oil in Ghana. NOV has current contracts with Melcurt for the Okono Okpoho project and First E&P for the Anyala Madu Fields Development, both in Nigeria; and with Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited and Operatec for the Lifua field in Angola.
What was the scope of NOV’s involvement in Ghana’s landmark OCTP integrated oil and gas project? NOV was responsible for acting as the primary interface between the company, local partner and government bodies, and managing stakeholders’ and client’s (Eni) expectations throughout the life cycle of the project. We conducted local vendor assessment, selection and monitoring for the local fabrication of […]