SEOUL, KOREA - Samsung Heavy Industries succeeded in snatching a US$3-billion deal to build a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to be deployed in the sea off Nigeria. The company won the project by outbidding at the last minute Hyundai Heavy Industries that had been the most likely winner.
Samsung Heavy said on June 13 that it landed a contract awarded by Total Upstream Petroleum Nigeria Ltd. to build an ultra-large-scale FPSO to be used in Egina deepwater oil field 200 kilometers off Nigerian coast. The company will deliver the FPSO unit by the latter half of 2017.
The Egina offshore oil field, whose estimated oil reserves are in excess of 550 million barrels, is owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (45%) and France's Total (24%). Total had begun the bidding of the FPSO since 2009 when several shipbuilders from the United States, France, China, and Singapore participated. But Samsung Heavy and Hyundai Heavy emerged as finalists.
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