The Managing Director, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, Nicholas Terraz has said that with the completion of the company’s Ofon phase 2 wellhead platforms, it is set to increase oil production from the Ofon field to 65,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 25,000bpd, Crowngist reports.
Terraz spoke yesterday at the commissioning and sail away ceremony of the platforms at Nigerdock’s Snake Island Integrated Free Zone in Lagos. He said; “The 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. For the construction of the Ofon 2 wellhead platforms, over  five million man-hours of work were completed with zero lost time injury,” he added, saying that so many facilities used in the construction of the platforms were manufactured locally.