After nearly four years of planning and investing more than $4.5 million in facilities, recruitment and training, GE Oil & Gas has added the capability to fabricate subsea wellheads in Nigeria for its oil and gas customers, the company said in a news release.
The announcement was made in Lagos by Uzo Nwagwu, COO for GE Oil & Gas in Nigeria.
As a result, GE’s customers operating in Nigeria no longer need to import these fabricated wellheads, thereby reducing costs and improving delivery time, the release said.
The new wellhead production capabilities at GE’s existing Onne facility in River State align with the Nigerian federal government’s local content law and desire for increased manufacturing capacity, skill acquisition and technology transfer.
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