Bala Wunti, the group general manager of NAPIMS, the investment division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), made this compliment while leading his leadership team on an assessment of the Bonga FPSO vessel, which is managed by SNEPCo.
One of the best corporations on the planet, according to Wunti, is called Shell. He also claimed that NAPIMS will help improving the accommodations for SNEPCo's offshore workers in order to speed up the planned Turn Around Maintenance of the vessel with a capacity of 225,000 barrels per day. This, he claimed, would shorten the time of the production outage.
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He noted that "there is a difficulty of people on board on FPSOs which effects pace of execution across the business in Nigeria."
Wunti praised the remarkable congruence between Bonga operations and NNPC's core values of quality, compliance, speed of execution, and safety.
Even while there may be disagreements on the "How," he noted, "since there is alignment on these values, it should be straightforward at the leadership level to align swiftly on the "What" and "Why." In order to foster more collaboration and increase performance, he urged SNEPCo to remain receptive to technical recommendations from NNPC, saying: "When these proposals come, SNEPCo should take it, test it, and if it doesn't work, thrash it afterwards."
Impressed by the extremely low flare in Bonga operations, Wunti recommended further operations improvement to reach zero flare, adding that NNPC gave ISO certification, equipment inspections, disciplined execution, and cost excellence top attention.
When showing the NAPIMS team through the plant, SNEPCo's Managing Director, Mrs. Elohor Aiboni, stated that SNEPCo's continual improvement focus had contributed to maintaining a high performance level for Bonga, Nigeria's first deep offshore vessel.
Nigeria, which continues to be a key market for Shell, will benefit from our efforts to develop a safe, straightforward, and cost-disciplined deep-water company, according to Aiboni.
SNEPCo established deep-water oil and gas production in Nigeria at Bonga, a project that, when it started producing in 2005, increased Nigeria's oil capacity by 10%. In water more than 1,000 meters deep and covering an area of 60 square kilometers, Bonga is situated 120 kilometers offshore. It is capable of producing 150 million standard cubic feet of gas per day and more than 200,000 barrels of oil per day.
