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Fig. 5 – Saipem’s
Rumuolumeni yard in
Port Harcourt

Egina, a Nigerian project capabilities, Saipem has also audited and qualified
major Nigerian subcontractors, with the view to
The Egina UFR project implementation plan confirms improving identified competency levels and build up
Saipem’s strong commitment to local content long term relationships.
development: the entire project is run from Saipem
Contracting Nigeria’s premises in Lagos, and most of Saipem has audited and qualified major
the engineering is being performed in Nigeria, either Nigerian subcontractors
in-house by Saipem or by local engineering partners.
Among these is Energy Works Technology Ltd.
The Egina UFR project confirms Saipem’s (EWT) in Port Harcourt. Saipem has engaged in a
strong commitment to local content comprehensive mentorship program to bring up

The vast majority of fabrication works for the Egina
project are performed at Saipem’s Rumuolumeni yard
in Port Harcourt (figure 5), established in 1999 and
grown over the years to reach today’s total area of over
1,000,000 m2, of which 70,000 m2 are covered,
offering a total fabrication capacity of 22,000 ton/year.

Saipem has once again honored his
famous pledge “here to stay”

Taking due consideration of its needs for Egina Project, Fig. 6 – The Quad and
Saipem has once again honored his famous pledge Double Jointing plant
“here to stay”, with a 60 million US dollars investment
plan in its Port Harcourt fabrication yard turning it into Fig. 7 – Completed LBL array structures at EWT yard in Port Harcourt
a highly versatile and world-class asset thus maximizing
the execution of works in-country.
Second to none in Nigeria, its new-built state of the art
Quad and Double Jointing plant (figure 6) makes up
the lion share of this plan. It was inaugurated on 6
February 2015 by the Executive Secretary / Chief
Executive Officer of the Nigerian Content Development
Board, Engineer Ernest Nwapa alongside other top
executives of Nigerian Content Development and
monitoring board and representatives of major oil & gas
companies.
In line with its commitment to maximize the use and
foster development of Nigeria’s indigenous companies’

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