Aveon Offshore Limited has announced the successful completion of the construction of the 350-tonne topside Production Deck Module for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/First Exploration and Production Development Company Limited (FIRST E&P) Joint Venture.

The company said it had successfully loaded the PDM out of its fabrication yard in Port Harcourt in July 2020. The platform was fabricated for 12 months and has sailed away from the company’s fabrication yard to the Anyala Field (OML 83), offshore Bayelsa State for installation. The PDM will be lifted onto the pre-installed Subsea Support Structures (SSS) and Drilling Deck Module (DDM), which were also fabricated by Aveon Offshore Limited and delivered mid-2019.

This project is the first of two Conductor Supported Platforms currently under construction by the NNPC/FIRST E&P Joint Venture for the Anyala and Madu fields in OML 83 and 85. The project was executed at the company’s 300,000 square metres fabrication yard in Rumuolumeni near Port Harcourt and generated over 500,000 production man-hours.

Aveon Offshore Limited is a Nigerian owned engineering and fabrication services company. The contract for the fabrication of approximately 750 tons of structures (SSS, DDM, PDM), outfitting and handling of 700 tons of Conductor Pipes was awarded in December 2018.

Commenting in the press release, the Chairman of AVEON Offshore Limited, Tein George said, “we are very pleased to have been considered by FIRST E&P as a reliable contractor to deliver these extremely time sensitive and technically demanding structures, thereby contributing to the achievement of their goal of reaching first oil in a safe and timely manner, whilst adhering to the highest safety and quality standards.”

The company thanked the NNPC, FIRST E&P, Maerlin Limited and Aquaterra Energy Limited for the opportunity given to them to be a part of the project.