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  • Leadway, Total seal pact on third party motor insurance

    Leadway Assurance Company Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Total Nigeria Plc to sell third party motor vehicle insurance to the general public in some designated Total service stations across the country.

    The deal was signed in Lagos where the Executive Director, General Business, Leadway Assurance, Ms Adetola Adegbayi represented the Managing Director, Oye Hassan-Odukale and the Territorial Sales Manager (North), Total Nigeria Plc- Muftau Balogun represented the Managing Director, Total Nigeria Plc, Jean-Philippe Torres in Lagos.

    According to Ms Adegbayi, the agreement allows Leadway’s insurance products and services to be made available in some designated Total service stations across the country starting with 20 stations in Lagos.

    She stated that Leadway’s easy-to-use third party motor vehicle insurance recharge cards will not only be used as pick up centres for Leadway Assurance products but would also serve as collation centres for all insurance related issues such as claims processing.

    Leadway’s Executive Director, Finance and Systems Tunde Hassan-Odukale said as an innovation-driven market leader in the insurance industry, they are constantly seeking ways to make insurance products and services nearer, easily accessible and more convenient to customers.

    He added that they have developed their online infrastructure to provide real-time, online access and interaction for their clients.

    He said: “The partnership with Total reinforces that quest to further take insurance closer to Nigerians whilst affirming our commitment to superior service delivery. Indeed, with this partnership, our customers, who are also consumers of Total’s array of products and services, would reduce their commuting time and cost to procure high value insurance products such as the motor insurance, at a single location. The Nigerian insurance industry has been characterised by low market penetration and adoption resulting in the industry contributing less than one per cent to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

    Territorial Sales Manager (North), Total Nigeria Plc Muftau Balogun said: “We are proud of the partnership with Leadway Assurance, a dynamic organisation, who shares our values of integrity, innovation, and superior service delivery. This is an association of caring brands.

    “With this partnership, our outlets will become the first in our industry to have insurance products and services offered at the convenience of our customers from our service stations, he added.

  • Total’s Ofon field platform takes off

    Total’s Ofon field platform takes off

    Key oil industry stakeholders were at the sail away of the wellhead platform for oil production from Ofon Phase 2. It is a shallow water field in oil mining lease (OML) 102 in 40 metres water depth. Industry players highlighted the milestones achieved by the project. EMEKA UGWUANYI was there.

    The new wellhead platform of Ofon Phase 2 have been inaugurated. The ceremony took place at Nigerdock’s Snake Island Integrated Free Zone in Lagos.

    The operators said the primary objective of the platforms is to eliminate gas flaring from the field and increase oil and gas production. The project is a boost to Nigerian content as all the activities were carried out in-country by Nigerians.

    Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (TEPNG) Joint Venture Managing Director, owners of the project, Mr. Nicholas Terraz, said the project meant a lot to Total JV. He said with the completion of Ofon Phase 2 wellheads, Total was set to increase oil production at Ofon field to 65,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 25,000bpd.

    He said: “This delivery is, therefore, a key milestone in the Ofon 2 project. For the construction of the Ofon 2 wellhead platforms, over five million man-hours of work were completed with zero lost time injury. It opened a new chapter on the development of Nigerian Content. The first project ever with so many facilities manufactured in Nigeria. Five of the seven main engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts were awarded to Nigerian firms.

    “A pioneering achievement has been the Ofon living quarter platform, built in-country and providing a safe and comfortable accommodation for staff working on the site, the first in Nigeria. It will Increase production from 25,000 to 65,000bpd and also implementation of gas lift activation. It will help to develop additional reserves with water injection to maintain reservoir pressure and ensure an increased oil recovery, as well as improve operating conditions on site with the installation of a new living quarter platform and various facilities upgrade.

    “Delivery of the new wellhead platforms will pave way for the drilling of additional 24 wells and ramp up of production to a plateau of 65,000bpd and three million cubic meters of gas per day. This delivery is therefore, a key milestone in the Ofon 2 project.

    “The project target was to stop routine gas flaring and monetise associated gas from Ofon field. The flare out objective was successfully achieved in December 2014 and as a result Ofon phase 2 was awarded World Bank’s 2015 Global Gas Flaring Reduction Excellence Award. The first new wells were drilled last year and the project achieved first oil in September 2015.

    Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Ibe Kachikwu, represented by the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Mr. Dafe Sejebor corroborated the Total chief.

    He said the project marks a significant step towards the government’s drive to increase and sustain Nigeria’s daily target production, especially in the present phase of dwindling oil price and incessant vandalism and sabotage of oil facilities. “Following years of diligent work, commitment and challenges, we are indeed proud that our collective efforts have culminated to this event. Today Ofon phase 2 can be considered a success after several years of investment in capital and human resources. The more than five million man-hours of engineering for the project done in-country immensely reflected the drive of government’s policy on local content development. Government will continue to support efforts at increasing oil and gas reserves which stand at 37.2 billion barrels,” he added.

    Nigerdock Chairman Mr. Anwar Jarmakani called on the government and oil firms to support the huge investment the firm has made in infrastructure, technology and manpower training by giving the company more jobs to retain the over 3000 personnel trained to carry out such projects.

    Jarmakani said: “The Ofon platform project is the first EPC and onshore commissioning contract awarded to an indigenous contractor. Following the start of this project, it has been a celebration of one milestone after another, culminating into the full completion and delivery of the project work scope. The project will bring about additional oil and gas production from 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe/d). It will also help to stop gas flaring on Ofon and deliver gas to to Bonny LNG plant via Amenam field. This injection of gas feedstock will significantly boost the domestic gas market and provide critical power for Nigeria’s domestic and industrial needs in line with the Federal Government’s power sector objectives.

    “A Jagal Energy Company, Nigerdock is West Africa’s leading indigenous company with expertise in oil and gas construction, shipyard and marine services, logistics support and industrial training. We have trained over 6000 personnel in our training facility recently and we have developed world class systems and processes for Nigerdock driven by competent and professional Nigerian workforce. In this high risk and HSE-critical work systems and environment, Nigerdock has executed over five million man-hours of productivity and achieved over three million man-hours without lost time incident.

    “There is a serious lack of effective and efficient engineering services in-country which causes escalating costs when work has to be outsourced overseas. Nigerdock currently provides engineering services and management as demonstrated by the performance on this EPC contract and will be a major enabler of improving the current in-country deficiencies. Our work methods and systems are world class, which has been attested to by major oil and gas companies and other customers. To keep this there needs to be a consistent flow of work. A stop-start programme will simply keep us and the rest of the nation uncompetitive and we will never reach our full potential.’’

  • Total expects increased production from $10b investments

    Total Upstream Nigeria Limited is targeting improved crude production with its $10 billion investments in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.

    The firm, in a report titled: The Total Upstream companies in Nigeria at a glance, made available to The Nation, said it has invested $10 billion between 2010 and 2015.

    The report encapsulates Total’s activities in Nigeria in the last 49 years (1966 -2015).

    The report noted that the firm has produced 2.3billion barrels of crude oil in Nigeria in 49 years, adding that it expects more crude production from its oil mining leases (OMLs) in the country.

    It said: “Egina Field located in OML 130 where Total and its partners such as Sapetro, Petrobras, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) are undertaking ultra-deep offshore venture, crude production is expected to reach a plateau of 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd).

    Akpo field oil mining lease (OML) 130 is where Total began its first deep offshore project in 2009. Its floating production vessel has a storage capacity of two million barrels of stabilised liquid hydrocarbon.”

    The report added that gas flaring has reduced by 75 per cent in Total owned oil field in OML 58 and 10 per cent in OML 102. The projects, which constitute the OML 58 include Ogbogu Flow Station (OFS); Field Logistics Base (FLB); Obite Treatment Centre (OTC); Obite, Ubeta, Rumuji (OUR) pipeline and the Northern Option Pipeline (NOPL).

    In OML 58 upgrade projects, the report said Total is targeting 70 per cent local content. “The upgrade projects were essentially designed to boost gas supply for both industrial and domestic use; and increase gas delivery to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) plants at Bonny Island, Rivers State. The Obite-Ubeta Rumuji (OUR) pipeline construction has a Nigerian content target of 78 per cent,” the report added.

    Total also established a contractor finance support initiative in 2013 to enhance the capacity of Nigerian contractors that are executing oil and gas projects for it. The initiative has resulted in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with eight Nigerian banks to provide $7.8 billion for the scheme.

  • Nigerdock delivers Total’s Egina FPSO’s first fabricated structures

    Nigerdock delivers Total’s Egina FPSO’s first fabricated structures

    Nigerdock said it has completed the fabrication and sail away of the ‘Flare Tower’ for the  Egina Floating Production, storage and offloading (FPSO) project for Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (TEPNL).

    The FPSO is being developed for deployment in the Egina oil field, located 150km off the coast of Nigeria. The field is currently under development, and production is scheduled to begin in 2018. Nigerdock was selected by Samsung/Total for critical in-country fabrication works and training services as the provider of choice.

    The Flare Tower structure that weighs 732 tonnes was completed on time, loaded out and sailed away on March 24, the company said. It is one of a number of structures fabricated by Nigerdock at its fabrication yard on Snake Island Integrated Free Zone for Samsung Heavy Industries Egina FPSO project. The remaining works will continue through to the first quarter of 2017 as contracted.

    The Project Manager, Emeka Uhara, said: “The fabrication for Egina was a big success being delivered on time and within budget, and to world class specifications. ‘’We have expended over 1.7 million man-hours on the project, and it has helped generate employment for hundreds of Nigerians while also creating the opportunity for the provision of thousands of man-hours of specialised training.”

    The structures completed at Nigerdock’s fabrication yard at Snake Island Integrated Free Zone, Lagos, are a major boost to the Federal Government’s Nigerian Content policy, which seeks to domesticate more oil and gas activities in Nigeria under the guidance of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

  • Total Recall unveils new soap, talk show

    Total Recall unveils new soap, talk show

    •Celebrates Owen Gee, Falz, Yemi Alade, Norbert Young others

    As the second quarter of the year inches close, one of the production houses set to rule the television airwaves is Total Recall Media Ltd (TRML), producers of musical TV show, E-Access   and popular family soap series, Two Sides Of a Coin.

    It was a beehive of celebrities, penultimate Tuesday, as the company unveiled two new shows which many believe will boost the entertainment space with, not just new offerings but ones that celebrates talents in special ways.

    The new shows – Lincoln’s Clan, a Pan-African Soap Series, and Buzz Live with Owen Gee, an hilarious comedy talk show – excited guests who clapped and roared with laughter during the sneaka preview of the shows.

    Group Managing Director of TRML, Mr. Oluseyi Adebanjo, disclosed that the two programmes which are currently running on Africa Magic channels on DStv, will make its debut on terrestrial TV stations across the country in April. “Lincoln’s Clan will debut on Silverbird TV (STV) Network by 7.30pm on Saturday April 2nd, 2016 and 35 other TV Stations across the country while Buzz Live with Owen Gee will debut on Silverbird TV (STV) Network by 12.30pm on Saturday April 2nd, 2016 and 32 other TV Stations across the nation,” he said.

    Starring Norbert Young, Kunle Coker, Doris Simeon, Thandekile Maseko and Kunle Rhemmy among others, Lincoln’s Clan tells the story of power play and wealth within the Nigeria clan called The Lincoln’s. Having been used to getting their ways in everything they do, the rich deep secret between them threatens their bond and existence as a family. An initial struggle between the two crowned heirs dominates their daily lives, but a new long family secret rear its head, making the sworn enemies to fight together for a common cause. Despite the headaches the heirs bring to the family, the Lincoln’s head will do anything to protect the generational wealth and name uncommonly.

    Buzz Live with Owen Gee on the other hand is a talk show that reviews past buzz worthy events comically and spotlights celebrities with hilarious interviews. Hosted by one of Nigeria’s brilliant comedians, Owen Gee, the show boasts of weekly guest appearances with analysis of the weirdest happenings and events that were trendy.

    Praising the company’s initiative at the event, Adebanjo said, “TRML, an apex name in media across Africa, broke away from the norms with her dedication to excellence in independent TV/Radio/Print production, Event management, PR/ Media relations, Entertainment consultancy, using the synergy of highly skilled people and superior technology for optimal returns.”

    The company is noted for other contents such as Reel E on TV, a lifestyle entertainment show and REEL E Magazine & REEL E Blog “ www.reeletv.com”, an entertainment portal for African celebs.

  • Total refuses to cut jobs, despite oil price crash

    Total refuses to cut jobs, despite oil price crash

    French energy company, Total expects a drop in last year’s results but does not plan to cut jobs as peer British Petroleum has done to weather low oil prices, its Chief Executive, Patrick Pouyanne, said this during an interview with reporters.

    According to Reuters, he said  the group had the financial capacity to weather low oil prices, adding that Total like its peers was being hit by the fall in crude prices and that the company expected its results to drop by 20 per cent.

    A Total spokesman said Pouyanne was referring to the company’s full-year 2015 results, which will be presented on February 11.

    “We are resisting, but we are taking a hit,” he said.

    “We have the financial capacity to withstand the price volatility in crude. We know that in commodities, there are cycles. Yes, this cycle is very violent, down 20 per cent in less than a month, 60 per cent in a year.”

    Asked if Total would cut jobs, Pouyanne said: “No. We are used to these cycles, and jobs cannot be the adjustable variable because I’ll need these workers when the price goes back up, and it will go back up someday. I don’t know when.”

    British energy company BP said last week that it planned to slash five per cent of its global workforce, about 4,000 jobs.

    Pouyanne said Total had decided instead  not  to replace all retiring staff and to hire fewer people.

    Total shares were up 2.1 per cent, boosting France’s blue-chip CAC 40 index and tracking the sector index, which was also up by more than per cent.

  • ‘Healing should be total’

    ‘Healing should be total’

    A naturopath, Dr Gilbert Ezengige, has urged natural medicine practitioners to imbibe the principles of holistic healing.

    According to him, people’s emotions should also be looked into.

    Ezengige,  Chief Executive Officer, Health Bubbles, said most practitioners focus only on physical wellbeing and not the psychological state of their clients.

    Holistic healing, he said, encompasses physical and mental wellbeing of people.

    Treatment, Ezengige said, should be directed to the whole person – mind, body and soul.

    Moreover, people should be encouraged to take their health seriously because it is in their hands.

    ”A holistic medicine practitioner pays adequate attention to his patient’s verbal accounts, non-verbal heart transmissions (often sensed by conscientious practitioners), gesticulation, demeanour, carriage, voice and tone. Having identified the area of his clients’ life requiring urgent attention, the physician consequently incorporates or modifies his treatment plan to cater specifically for those needs,” he said.

    He said the aim of a practitioner should be to ensure that diseases are prevented because it is beneficial to man.

    “Methods of disease prevention are among the top priorities for holistic medicine practitioners. If all the sophistications, technological ingenuity and efforts geared towards the development of modern medicine therapeutics and sometimes to irrelevant research pursuits are channeled in the direction of preventive medicine, the world would become a better place for humanity,” he said.

    He continued: “For example, emotions affect physiology; so a woman’s regular menstrual cycle can be altered drastically as a result of a relationship that has turned sour.”

    Ezengige said there is a positive way practitioners harness emotional thought energy for healing.

    Besides, the harbouring of fear is one of the negative ways of applying this neutral energy because organs are encumbered and harmed by it.

    He said: “For example, when people tune their radio or television station and hear or watch an oncologist, a cancer expert enumerate signs and symptoms of breast cancer, in a moment, it appears some of the symptoms mentioned are with you, you quickly make up the other symptoms he enumerated. However, you may not actually experience them. But, you may begin to assume that you occasionally feel those symptoms too. You start to entertain and progressively harbour serious fears. You start to broadcast your fears to the cosmos silently out of passive defiance. This inward apprehension may stay with you for years or even decades”.

    “Due to man’s inner feeling, he may fall to some of his fears. Doctors sometimes may recommend further test to investigate cancerous state of a patient. Nevertheless, in your mind’s eye, you are expecting nothing different. Lo and behold! The test comes out positive. What you have feared most has happened to you as was the Job in the Bible,” he said.

    Ezengige said the connection between human emotions/mental state and physical organs is quite appreciated by practitioners of medicine.

    He advised people to be positive, and as such face life challenges calmly, courageously and prayerfully.

    He enjoined practitioners to always get to the root of their patients illnesses so as to know the best way to treat them and prevent future occurrence of such diseases. Palliative measures won’t take anybody any far, he added.

    He said diagnostic and therapeutic procedures carried out on a patient should be safe and harmless. “These procedures should not worsen a patient’s health status in a fashion similar to sprinkling salt to an injury. If this advice is taken seriously by healthcare givers, over 80 per cent of iatrogenic (doctor- induced) disorders would not occur. The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates admonished; “If a doctor can’t help, he should be prevented from doing harm”.

    Health practitioners, he said, should help to facilitate natural healing process through their timely intervention. Adding: “Holistic healthcare providers often imitate nature’s ways and ensure healing for the sick”.

    Practitioners, he said, should teach their clients healthy lifestyles, and as such put diseases at bay.

  • Lagos govt, TOTAL take HIV/AIDS awareness campaign  to schools

    Lagos govt, TOTAL take HIV/AIDS awareness campaign  to schools

    As part of activities marking this year’s World AIDS Day, the Lagos State government and Total E & P Nigeria Limited during the week embarked on enlightenment campaign for secondary school students in the state.

    The campaign funded by Total Nigeria Limited was held at Ibeju Lekki High School, Ibeju Lagos.

    The programme consultant, High Chief Lawrence Amakiri noted that campaign is sacrosanct because field experiences showed: “Most of the people between nine and 20 years of age still lack correct, effective and ethical information or education about the dreaded HIV\AIDS disease and its pandemic nature.”

    His position was confirmed by the ignorance displayed by a good number of the participants during the campaign.

    Speaking on the importance of the campaign, the representative of Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, Mrs Adeyinmika Akinola said: “We want HIV\AIDS free generation. This is why we are here to sensitize the students on what they need to do to remain negative. We are happy to support the enlightenment programme put up by Total Nigeria Limited and Teccua Investments Company Nigeria Limited and we are happy with the active participation of the students and the teachers. Lagos State has been in the forefront of organizing programmes like this through which we give basic facts on HIV\AIDS prevention to the students. Sometimes we do it through non-governmental organizations and corporate bodies like TOTAL has done today.

     

  • Total E&P to fix vandalised oil export pipeline

    Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (TEPNL) has begun repairing its vandalised export pipeline in Rivers State.

    The company in a statement signed by its Deputy General Manager, Media & Public Affairs, Charles Ogan, said: “Following the oil spill reported at Kilometre 25 and 27 locations on our Obagi – Rumuekpe oil export pipeline, on August 16, 2015, a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV), in accordance with the extant regulations, was carried out on the oil spill locations, with relevant regulatory agencies including the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), NOSDRA, and Rivers State Ministry of Environment). The JIV team recorded that the oil spill incident was due to third-party interference (sabotage).

    “Total mobilised intervention teams to clamp the leaks on the pipeline. Relevant agencies and service providers were also mobilised and have deployed containment booms to contain the spill and prevent further spread.

    “TEPNG is committed to preventing further spread of the spill and to restore the environment. Total will continue to work with the relevant government authorities and communities, to ensure that this is achieved.

    “Further updates shall be provided in due course. Total E&P Nigeria operates oil mining lease (OML) 58 with a 40 per cent interest, alongside the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation with 60 per cent.”

    On August 17, this year, the company reported it had stopped the expedition of crude on its Obagi-Rumuekpe oil export pipeline, after observing an oil spill at Kilometre 25 and 27 locations and said relevant authorities were informed immediately.

  • Total E&P appoints DMD

    Total E&P appoints DMD

    The Board of Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (TEPNL) has appointed Mr. Ahmadu-Kida Musa as the Deputy Managing Director (DMD), Deepwater District of the firm with effect from August 1.

    He replaced Mr. Charles Ngoka, who has proceeded on retirement.

    The company’s Deputy General Manager, Media & Public Affairs, Charles Ogan, said Musa is a dynamic and focused manager with 30 years’career in oil and gas operations and management.

    A 1984 Engineering graduate (B.Eng. Civil) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Musa also holds a Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Petroleum Engineering from the Institut Francais du Petrole ( IFP), Paris, France.

    He has attended various management and technical courses at the University of Port Harcourt, Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.

    Musa is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, member of various bodies, including the Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria, Nigeria Institute of Management, Society of Petroleum Engineers International and Institute of Petroleum, United Kingdom (UK).

    Musa started his career in 1985 with Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited as a trainee engineer and materials co-ordinator – engineering department and was later appointed to various positions of responsibility in production, operations and projects.

    Last September, he was appointed to the Board of TEPNL as Executive Director, Port Harcourt District, a position he held until his present appointment.

    Musa is also the Chairman, Rivers State Basketball Association, member and Southsouth zone representative, Nigerian Basketball Federation and Vice-President, Federation of International Basketball Associations, (FIBA) Africa Zone 3.