Egina: A Flagship Offshore Project in Nigeria

The Egina field is located in the PML 2/3/4 Block (formerly OML 130), some 150 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. Commissioned in 2018 after five years’ development, Egina is one of our most ambitious ultra-deep offshore projects. It also represents a tangible illustration of our commitment to local content and our ambition to reduce emissions from our operated sites.

The water depth of between 1,400 and 1,700 meters posed a challenge for the development of Egina, which is one of the deepest offshore projects ever operated by TotalEnergies. The facility comprises 44 subsea wells connected to a floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) designed to hold 2.3 million barrels of oil. Weighing close to 220,000 metric tons and measuring an impressive 330 meters by 60 meters wide, the FPSO is the largest ever built by the Company and produces 200,000 barrels of oil per day, i.e. nearly 10% of the country’s total oil production.

As part of its commitment to its host communities, TotalEnergies maximized the number of local contractors involved in the project:

• six of the eighteen modules on the FPSO were built and integrated locally,
• over 48 million hours of work were carried out in Nigeria (77% of the total project workload), equivalent to an average workforce of 6,000 people over a five-year period, and
• more than 600,000 hours of training were provided locally on the different oil and gas activities during the project’s development.

The project has also benefited the country’s infrastructure, with upgrades to the existing manufacturing sites and the construction of new infrastructures, such as a 500-meter long quay for assembling the FPSO.

Egina: the first “zero routine flaring” project in Nigeria

In 2019, Egina became the first oil project in Nigeria to achieve “zero routing flaring” thanks to the gas compression system installed in the field. The associated gas produced by Egina is compressed and transported to the Nigeria LNG (NLNG) liquefaction terminal near Port Harcourt. After finalizing the OML 100 Flare Out project in December 2023, TotalEnergies became the first major operator in the country to completely eliminate routine flaring at all operated assets.

As a long-standing partner to Nigeria, the Company is supporting the country with its efforts to reduce its emissions, particularly methane. Nigeria was one of the first countries where TotalEnergies led campaigns to detect and measure methane emissions at its oil and gas facilities using our cutting-edge AUSEA technology. The Company is also making this technology available to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) under a cooperation agreement signed in December 2023.