By Yemie Adeoye

ENGINEERING and Technical Company Limited (NETCO), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has won the Detailed Engineering Design (DED) for the upgrade of Chevron Nigeria’s Utonana facilities. The company is positioned to expend a minimum of 14,423 manhours on the project with 100 percent Nigerian content.

This is coming on the heels of the company’s successful completion of its Environmental Management System’s (EMS) audit in order to ensure compliance and conformity to international standards of operation.

The DED project Manager Mr. Lukman Ayinde, told Vanguard exclusively that Chevron’s intent is to carry out refurbishment and replacement works on Utonana Oil Production Facilities in order to restore the integrity of the flow station.

The main objective is to enhance production through the field’s economic life and the project would be carried out by NETCO for a period of 4 months, adding that success would be based on safe completion, accurate projects deliverables, completion on schedule, strict adherence to approved cost and man-hours.

A project Technical Kick-Off meeting was held in order to align the NETCO project team with the client’s expectations and also finalise the Master Derivable Register (MDR), review and freeze scope of work, the importance of Incident and injury free amidst other important factors.

Chevron emphasized the need for NETCO to deliver the project safely, timely and within budget, adding that site-visit is key on this project so as to avoid a rework. It, however noted that a zero re-work is attainable, while stressing the importance of training of personnel viz-a-viz meeting NCDMB training requirements.

Ayinde expressed NETCO management’s appreciation for Chevron’s support by awarding the project to the company even as he emphasized the importance of having a lesson-learnt session at the beginning of the project. He also assured on his company’s readiness to meet Chevron’s expectations.