One of the leading international oil companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria, Total Exploration and Production will be leading other oil and gas delegates to the 16th edition of the Offshore West African (OWA) Conference in Abuja.

Total is the world’s fourth-largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company with operations in more than 130 countries spanning all aspects of the petroleum industry, including Upstream operations (oil and gas exploration, development and production, LNG) and Downstream operations (refining, marketing trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products ).

Having operated in Nigeria for almost 50 years, the company said it is dedicated to improving the Nigerian people’s quality of life.

“We work in close cooperation with international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and government and community represen-tatives. TOTAL Upstream provides skills development for young people, scholarships, upgrades of educational infrastructure, water supply, communication, electricity, health care services and facilities, roads, income generating projects and agriculture.”

“Our projects in Nigeria - Amenam / Kpono, Usan, Akpo, and Ofon phase two - are concrete proof of our long-term commitment to both excelling in our industry and forwarding sustainable development in the country.”

The Akpo Project was the first project of the company in Nigeria and it is a deep offshore installation based on a stand-alone facility. Some 44 subsea wells (22 producers, 20 water injectors and two gas injectors) are arranged around various subsea infrastructures wells in water depths ranging from 1,300 to 1,500 metres , and connected to production facilities on a new-built FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel) via insulated production flow lines and steel catenary risers of the most advanced technology with and . The FPSO, which is designed for 240 people aboard, has a capacity of 175,000 for stabilised conden-sate, 530 for produced gas and a capacity of two million barrels crude storage.