Four years after completing the subsea tie-back for Chevron’s giant Agbami field, OML 128, Nigerian oil service firm Marine Platforms (MPL) is now working on the Anyala field, OML 83. According to our information, the Malaysian group Yinson has selected MPL to install a production tie-back to its FPSO on Anyala. The field itself is operated by the former minister of state for petroleum Odein Ajumogobia’s firm First E&P. Yinson won a contract for the operation and maintenance of the FPSO charter on Anyala a year ago.
MPL is led by Taofik Adegbite, a businessman and general consul for Norway in Nigeria since October 2018. Adegbite has been a champion for local content in his country. He is joined by Angus Kerr a former Technip Offshore executive, now chief technical officer at MPL. Two Nigerian bankers, Baji Nyam, who had worked for the Lagos-based FSB International Bank, and Biodun Odunsi, make up the rest of the top management respectively as chief financial officer and chief operating officer.
Yinson has a strong track record in Ghana. It provided a FPSO for ENI’s offshore field Sankofa. Aker Energy should soon award the Malaysian firm a FPSO operations and maintenance contract for the Ghanaian offshore field Pecan.