Marine Platforms Limited, a Nigerian oil service company has secured a brownfield deepwater construction contract from Chevron Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited to carry out subsea tie-back for the Agbami Field, one of Nigeria\’s largest deepwater developments. Marine platforms is tasked with the Transportation, Installation, and Pre-commissioning (TIP) of flexible flowlines, jumpers, umbilicals, and manifolds. The Agbami Phase 3 is an eight well drilling program that began in early 2015 and is expected to start production in 2016. For the execution of this project, Marine Platforms will be deploying the Polar Onyx; an offshore construction vessel (OCV) with 250t AHC Crane, 270t top tension Vertical Lay System (VLS) and reel drive system. All engineering and project management work are being carried out in Marine Platforms Lagos office by a combination of MPL engineers and its technical partner, PDI.

The Chief Executive Officer of Marine Platforms, Taofik Adegbite, said, \”This is a brownfield development project with an objective to increase the field\’s production. They will be drilling additional wells to tie back to the Agbami main FPSO. Projects like this ordinarily are executed by the major subsea construction companies but this is the first time an indigenous company will be venturing into this terrain to fully undertake execution end to end. Running the engineering and project management in-house in Nigeria and going into the field to manage the project. Marine Platforms has recruited several Nigerians to gain experience on this project. Currently, there are 10 local subsea engineers and about 20 marine cadets who will be gaining first-hand practical knowledge and skill\”.

Describing it as another major feat for local content, Adegbite said that this is a major achievement in local content development, especially at this time in the oil and gas industry. It further cements Chevron as a major player supporting indigenous capacity building by having confidence in Marine Platforms capacity to execute this job. Before this project, Marine Platforms gained brownfield construction experience alongside her technical partner, CEONA during the successful execution of ABO phase 3, 8 and 12 loadout, transportation, installation and pre-commissioning of Eni Nigeria Agip Exploration\’s subsea flowlines, jumpers, umbilicals, and manifolds in 2014.

Chevron Agbami field is located offshore Nigeria in the central Niger delta approximately 113 km (70 miles) south-southwest of the nearest Nigerian shoreline, and approximately 354 km (220 miles) southeast of the city of Lagos. It lies in water depths ranging from 1280 to 1650 m (4,200 to 5,400 feet)

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About Marine Platforms
Incorporated in March 2001, Marine Platforms is an indigenous Nigerian oil service company focused on providing diverse services to the upstream sector of the oil & gas industry in Nigeria and the West African Sub-region. Our service offerings are subsea solutions, well services, vessel chartering services.