Advert for Tender Opportunity Provision of Rig Support Services in OML-126/137 at Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) Limited

1.) Introduction:
Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) Limited (hereinafter referred to as “ APE(N)L”) invites interested and pre-qualified Contractors to respond to this tender opportunity for the provision of the following services as detailed in item 2 below, at APE(N)L’s OML-1261137 [Offshore] facilities. The contracts are proposed to commence in QZ, 2013 and continue for a duration of two (2) years with APE(N)L having the sole option to extend the duration for a further period of one (1) year.

2.) Scope of Services Requirements:
As a minimum requirement, the selected Contractor shall have the necessary experience, capability and shall be fully responsible for the provision of Equipment and Services suitable for use in an offshore operation as listed in the table below;

Tender No.: ETB-0537 Completion Services - Stand Alone Screen
NJQS Category: 3.04.21
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Stand Alone Screen & Services including but not limited to the following;

• Various sizes of standard and high premium Stand Alone Screen (SAS) w/varying gauges or mesh sizes with I3TC threads.
• Various sizes of controlled delayed swell packers in synthetic oil based mud (Oil and water swellable) with BTC threads.
• All necessary Consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment; tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: ETB-0538 Coring Services
NJQS Category: 3.04.11
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Core acquisition tools and Services including but not limited to the following

• Coring Equipment & Tools (12¼”, 8½”, and 6” coring system/tools for consolidated and unconsolidated formation);
• Coring services (consolidated and unconsolidated Formations);
• Core preservation services;
• All necessary Consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: ETB-0539 Downhole Testing Services
NJQS Category: 3.04.30
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Downhole Testing Equipment& Services including but not limited to the following

• Drill Stem Test (DSI) (various sizes of retrievable and permanent downhole testing packers, locators and seal assemblies, safety valves, testing and circulating valves, gauge carriers, bottom hole sampler carriers, rupture disk and tubing fill valves, surface test tree manual valves, hydraulic actuator, swivel, check valve, emergency shutdown system, high accuracy and high resolution gauges, surface readout equipment etc).
• Tubing Conveyed Perforation (JCP) (H various sizes/charges/shot per foot tubing conveyed perforation RDX & HMX guns, gun spacer, automatic gun drop sub, mechanic firing head, mechanic and automatic tubing release, automatic time-delay firing bead, pressure vent etc.
• All necessary Consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: ETB-0540 Gyro Services
NJQS Category: 3.04.29
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Gyro Tools/Equipment and Services including but not limited to the following

• Battery operated memory single-shot / multi-shots North Seeking Gyro services deployable by Drop, wireline or slickline.
• Single-shot / multi-shots surface readout North Seeking Gyro
• Multi-axis Gyro sensor multi-shots continuous North Seeking Gyro
• North Seeking Gyroscopic probe operational in MWD collar of various major directional drilling contractors
• GR/CCL subs to run in some applications with North Seeking Gyro tools
• Mono cable or multi-conductor wireline unit and accessories
• Gyro While Drilling (GWD) Tools;
• Wireline pressure control equipment
• All necessary consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: 3.07.07
NJQS Category: ETB-0541 Route Survey, Rig Move & Positioning Services
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Rig Move and Positioning Equipment & Services including but not limited to the following

• Onshore equipment for rig move (Complete long range 700 km differential GPS shore station emitting on 2 HF frequencies located in suitable location near Qua Ibo and Lagos in Nigeria and other neighboring countries etc);
• Offshore equipment for route survey (Quality Integrated Navigation System to collect bathymetry and side scan sonar data, process data or Starfix system or equivalent navigation software integrated to DGPS system with DGPS correction sources accuracy within i-03m in x, y, z axis, Navigation Software package with the ability to transform project flies between Datum/Projections in Nigeria Mid-Belt & UTM zone 32N grid with minimum three decimal. values etc);
• Offshore equipment for rig positioning (Quality integrated Navigation System (QINSY) to collect bathymetry, side scan sonar data, sector scan sonar data, process data or Starfix system or equivalent navigation software integrated to DGPS system with DGPS correction sources accuracy within +0.3m in x, y, z axis. Navigation Software package with the ability to transform project files between Datum/Projections in Nigeria Mid-Belt & UTM zone 32N grid with minimum three decimal values);
• All necessary Consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: ETB-0543 Weilbore cleanup Tools and Services
NJQS Category: 3.04.36
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Weilbore Cleanup Tools and Services including but not limited to the following;

• Weilbore Cleanup Tools (various sizes of casing scrapers, casing brushes, riser brushes, jetting tools, riser Jetting tools, debris catchers, magnets, junk baskets, mud tank cleaning equipment etc).
• Welibore Cleanup Services when required;
• All necessary consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: 3.04.21
NJQS Category: ETB-0544 Completion Services - Cased Hole and intelligent

• Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Intelligent and Cased Hole Completion Equipment & Services and will not be limited to the following;
• Intelligent completion (complete cased hole intelligent completion services to include intelligent completion downhole hard ware surface control monitoring and interface to Xmas tree and sand control hardware etc).
• Cased hole upper completion for horizontal wells (4-1/2” tubing retrievable subsurface safety valve flapper type, c/w self equalizing feature, permanent lock open feature, and 3.81” nipple profile c/w jam nut type connection for ¼” control line, tubing mounted nipples, flow couplings, gas lift mandrels, retrievable production packers, 4-1/2” self indexing guide shoe etc)
• Bucking services and pressure testing of bucked sub assemblies
• All necessary Consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

Tender No.: 3.04.24
NJQS Category: ETB-0545 Slickline Services
Scope of Work Description: Contractor must be able to provide Slickline Tool/Equipment & Services including but not limited to the following;

• Slickline tools/equipment (double drum slick-line unit c/w power pack, hydraulic BOP’s & pressure control equipment, rope sockets, puffing / running tools gauge cutters, blind boxes etc).
• All necessary Consumables and spare parts; and
• All other related equipment, tools and experienced personnel necessary to satisfactorily perform the above services.

3.) Mandatory Requirements:
3.1. To be eligible for any of the tender exercise, interested contractors are required to be pre-qualified in the Product/Services category in NipeX Joint Qualification System (NJQS) database as stated above, AU successfully pre-qualified suppliers in these categories will receive Invitation to Tender (ITT) as applicable.

3.2. To determine if you are pre-qualified and view the product/services category you are listed for Open www.nipexncom and access NJQS with your log in details, click on ‘continue Joint Qualification Scheme tool, click on’ check my supplier status and thereafter click on sup4plier product group’.

3.3. If you are not listed in a product/service category that you are registered with DPR to do business, contact NipeX office at 30, Oyinkan Abayomi Street, Ikoyi, Lagos with your DPR certificate as evidence for verification and necessary update.

3.4. To initiate the NJQS Pre-qualification process, access www.nipexng.com to download the requisite application form, make necessary payments and contact NipeX office for further action.

3.5. To be eligible, all tenderers shaft be required to comply with the Nigerian Content requirements in the NipeX system.

4.) Nigerian Content Requirements:
Tenderers are to note that they will be requested during the technical tender to provide details of their relevant strategy to ensure that they fully company with the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Ac 2010 as provided at www.nnpcgroup.com and www.nigcontente.com, in view of the fact that non-compliance will constitute a fatal flaw in all contract evaluations.

In light of the above, Tenderers shall be expected by the Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMI3) to:

• Demonstrate that the entity proposed for execution of the service, is a Nigerian Registered Company, or Nigerian Registered Company as the contracting entity in genuine alliance or joint venture with foreign company with details on scope and responsibilities of parties for this work. Such companies must show evidence of joint venture binding agreement duly signed by the CEO of both companies including evidence or plans of physical operational presence and set-up in Nigeria.
• Furnish details of company ownership and share holding structure. With photocopies of its CAC Forms C02 and C07.
• Provide evidence of what percentage of its key management positions are held by Nigerians and. what percentage of the total work force are Nigerians. And also show overall percentage of work to be performed by Nigerian resources relative to total work volume.
• State proposed total scope of work to be conducted by Nigerian personnel (whether contracted directly or under subcontract agreements) with names and addresses including evidences of well equipped offices and workshop.
• Provide detailed plan for staff training and development on engineering. project management and procurement (including all software to be used, number of personnel, name of organization providing such training and evidence of past training record) for Nigerian personnel including description of any specific programs in place for transfer of technology and skills to indigenous businesses and Nigerians over the next five(5) years.
• Provide evidence of domiciliation of project management and procurement centers in Nigeria with physical addresses (not P.O. Box).
• Provide detailed description of the location of in-country facilities (Equipment, storage, workshops, repair, maintenance and testing facilities)
• Provide detailed statement with evidence of how it intends to maximize the use of Nigerian made goods and services.
• Provide details on any other Nigerian Content initiative the company is involved in.
• Provide MOA with Oil & Gas trainers association (OGTAN) registered facility for both class room type (theoretical) and on-the-job training attachment for the duration of the project.
• Provide evidence of minimum 50% equity ownership of equipment by Nigerian subsidiary.

5.) Closing Date
Only tenderers who are registered with the required NJQS Product/Category as at 1200 Hours on December 28, 2012 being the advert closing date shall be invited to submit Technical Bids.

6.) General Conditions
Please note that all interested Contractors are required to strictly adhere to following conditions in relation to their response to this Advert:

• As stated in item 3 hereto, Contractors are required to be pro-qualified in NJQS under this specific Services category to be eligible to participate in this tender opportunity.
• All costs incurred in preparing and processing NJQS pro-qualification and responding to this Tender Opportunity shall be to the Contractor’s own account.
• This Advert shall neither be construed as any form of commitment on the part of APE(N)L to award any contract to any Contractor and or associated contractors, sub-contractors or agents, nor shall it entitle pro-qualified Contractors to make any claims whatsoever, and/or seek any indemnity from APE(N)L and/or any of its partners by virtue of such Contractors having been pro-qualified in NJQS.
• The tendering process shall be undertaken in accordance with the NNPC contracting process which requires pre-qualified Contractors to submit their documentation in the following manner.

1. Pre-Qualified contractors in the relevant Product/Services category in NJQS will be requested to submit their Technical Tenders.
2. Following the Technical evaluation process, only technically acceptable and financially qualified contractors will be requested to submit their Commercial Tenders.

• APE(N)L will communicate only with authorised officers of the qualifying Contractors at each stage of the Tender process, as necessary, and will NOT communicate through individuals or appointed Agents.

Please visit the NipeX portal at www.nipexng.com for this Advert and other relevant information.

Signed: Management