Marine Platforms Limited, a Nigerian oil service company has secured a deepwater construction contract from Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE). This project centers on the loadout, transportation, installation and pre-commissioning of Agip Exploration\’s subsea flowlines, jumpers, umbilicals, and manifolds. For this task, Marine Platforms has partnered with CEONA offshore a SURF and heavy subsea construction contractor based in the UK.

Alongside the operating well of the Phase 3 development Abo 3, NAE plans to add a new well- Abo 8 to the field which covers was tieback to the existing FPSO. The third well – Abo-12 is scheduled to take place in the year 2015. For the execution of this project, Marine Platforms alongside her partner, CEONA will be deploying the Normand Pacific; an installation and construction vessel (OCV) with 200t AHC Crane, 75t vertical lay tower and a reel drive system of 400t.

The Abo field is a deepwater oil field located in OML125, some 55 km off the Nigerian coast and holds water depths of around 450 to 750 meters, The field which commenced production in 2003, forms part of a production sharing contract between ENI subsidiary Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE), NNPC, Shell Nigeria and Oando Plc. It is operated by Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE), a subsidiary of Italy\’s Eni and is historically known as was the first deepwater field developed in Nigeria.