Operations
The Benin River Valve station (BRVS) is part of the 16 inches by 36KM Opuama-Otumara-Forcados oil delivery line close to the Benin River estuary.
The strategy employed for the evacuation of the Gbetiokun processed crude oil entails the use of two shuttle vessels capable of loading 25,000 Bbls and the other 50,000 Bbls. These shuttle vessels off-take the Gbetiokun processed crude oil from the storage vessel stationed at the Gbetiokun field and ship them to the BRVS.
The BRVS is designed such that shuttle vessels can moor at the mooring dolphins while another vessel can moor at the breasting dolphins safely and offload her crude oil content into the delivery line to Forcados oil Terminal operated by SPDC.
The infrastructural requirement for the crude oil injection into the Opuama-Otumara line also involves the use of high-capacity injection pumps that takes suction from each shuttle vessel.
