Green Energy International Limited (GEIL) has delivered an onshore terminal and associated export infrastructure with, initial 750,000Barrels of Oil storage capacity (expandable to 3Million barrels), complete with 360,000Barrels per day pumping capacity for loading export tankers.

It’s the first onshore in Nigeria in over 50 years, the first to be constructed by an indigenous operator. Project construction commenced in the second quarter (Q2) of 2023 and was delivered by Q1 2025, ahead of schedule.

The Otakikpo terminal is designed to handle up to 250,000Barrels Per Day crude injection while the Otakikpo field currently produces at ~ 10,000BOPD.

Injection of crude oil into the tanks started on March 30, 2025 and the operators are on track  for first export between May 23 and My 25, 2025.

This facility, GEIL says, will urgently tackle Nigerian E&P’s infrastructure deficiency which is demonstrated by the fact that there are only five key onshore terminals that have been serving the Nigeria upstream sector in the last 50 years – Forcados, Escravos, Brass, Bonny, and Qua Iboe.  “The Distance between these onshore terminals is as long as 162 km each”, GEIL explains on a tour of the facility.

Niger Delta onshore fields are spread over a very large geographical area. As such, the fields’ processing facilities are linked to these export terminals through pipelines that span more than 84,000 kilometres cumulative.

Onshore assets within 120km radius of the Otakikpo terminal

”There are over 40 stranded fields that are in proximity to terminal Ø It is estimated that these fields can produce over 200,000Barrels Per day  and they hold more than 3 Billion Barrels of Oil Equivalent (BO)E of reserves which would have hitherto been left unproduced”, notes Anthony Adegbulugbe, GEIL ‘s chief Executive Officer. “The new terminal creates remarkable value to these assets by providing ready access to cost effective and fit for purpose evacuation infrastructure”.

The current evacuation infrastructure is clearly suboptimal and this, in the view of GEIL, has come to mean that:

GEIL has identified as least five more strategic locations for other onshore terminals and export infrastructure across the Niger Delta and is in direct conversation with the Government to facilitate project implementation.

“The Otakikpo terminal is strategically located and offers three methods of crude injection into the terminal Ø 1.2kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean with existing pipelines (6kilometres and 23 kilometres) running from the terminal to the Ocean that could be used to inject crude into the terminal”, GEIL management says.

The company emphasises the new Terminal’s nearness to inland waterways (Opobo & Ikuru rivers etc.) and proximity to stranded and/or underdeveloped assets.

SOME KEY ELEMENTS OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE

A 20” x 23km Export Pipeline connecting the terminal to an unmanned mooring and crude offload system Ø 24,000BOPD excess flow station capacity installed to rapidly ramp up production from nearby fields

Design Basis and Limits

Terminal Processing Equipment Minimum Design Life: 25 years

THE OTAKIKPO TERMINAL OFFERS MULTIPLE CRUDE INTAKE OPTIONS FOR OPERATORS

Multiphase flow to the Otakikpo flowstation for fields less than 50km to the field deploying GEIL’s decentralized infrastructure

+ multiphase flow strategy Trucking through the excellent road network from the onshore Niger Delta assets to the terminal Marine evacuation via the Atlantic Ocean by injecting crude from the two existing offshore pipelines

Injection of crude oil into the tanks started on March 30, 2025 and the operators are on track  for first export between May 23 and May 25, 2025.

“This crude intake flexibility into the Otakikpo terminal is unique in Nigeria” GEIL says.  “No other terminal in Nigeria comprehensively offers all these alternatives to operators u This will considerably reduce transportation and logistical costs for operators, streamline their operations, minimize delays & losses in crude export and maximize profitability”.