DEADLINE: 8TH JANUARY, 2025
CHEVRON NIGERIA LIMITED (CNL)
OPERATOR OF THE NNPCL/CHEVRON JOINT VENTURE
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF DRILLING AND COMPLETION FLUID PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFSHORE
NIPEX TENDER NO.: CNL.00000319
1. INTRODUCTION
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/CNL Joint Venture, invites interested and prequalified companies for this tender opportunity for Provision of Drilling and Completion Fluid Products and Services Offshore for 2025 – 2032 Drilling and Completion Program to support Offshore Drilling and Completion Operations The proposed contract term is 5 (five) years with an option of 2 (two) year extension The award strategy is a multiple award to two (2) bidders at lowest bidders Quoted Prices/Rates who were technically qualified and compiled with Nigerian Content requirements and targets.
2. SCOPE OF WORK/SERVICE REQUIREMENTS:
Scope of work:
A. All products for Non-Aqueous Drilling Fluid (NADF) as required by COMPANY, Such NADF may be formulated with any of the following Base Fluids; Isomerized Olefin (IO), Synthetic Paraffin (SP) or Low Toxicity Mineral Oil (LTMO).
B. All products for Water Based Drilling Fluids (WBDF) as required by COMPANY.
C. All products for Reservoir Drill-in-Fluids as required by COMPANY.
D. All products for Completion Brines as required by COMPANY.
E. All products for Well clean-up products required by COMPANY.
F. A Bulk Storage & Transfer Facility in Warri, Onne or Escravos for provision of Barite and/or Bentonite and/or Calcium Carbonate to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall provide a minimum storage capacity solely dedicated to COMPANY of 800 metric tonnes of barite and 50 metric tonnes of bentonite with a minimum transfer rate for Barite of 150 metric tonnes per hour.
G. A Bulk Storage & Transfer Facility in Warri or Escravos for provision of NADF to COMPANY’S
vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall provide a minimum storage
capacity solely dedicated to COMPAN of 10,000 barrels with a minimum transfer rate of 500
barrels per hour.
H. A Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Warri or Escravos for provision of NADF to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall provide a minimum storage capacity solely dedicated to COMPANY of 4,000 barrels with a minimum transfer rate for a 1.0 ppg fluid of 500 barrels per hour. Such facility shall be equipped with adequate mixing equipment and adequate solids removal equipment (including a centrifuge) for mixing, treating and conditioning NADF as and when required by COMPANY.
I. A Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Warri or Escravos for provision of NADF to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall provide a minimum storage capacity solely dedicated to COMPANY of 4,000 barrels with a minimum transfer rate for a 10.0ppg fluid of 500 barrels per hour. Such facility shall be equipped with adequate mixing equipment for mixing and treating WBDF as and when required by COMPANY.
J. A Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Warri or Escravos for provision of Completion Brine to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall provide a minimum storage capacity solely dedicated to COMPANY of 4,000 barrels and a minimum transfer rate for a 13.0 ppg fluid of 500 barrels per hor. Such facility shall be equipped with adequate mixing equipment for mixing and treating Completion Brine as and when required by COMPANY.
K. Operate COMPANY’S Bulk Storage & Transfer Facility in Escravos and provision of Barite and/or Bentonite and/or Calcium Carbonate to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall be fully staffed and maintained by CONTRACTOR.
L. Operate COMPANY’S Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Escravos and provision of NADF to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall be fully staffed and maintained by CONTRACTOR.
M. Operate COMPANY’S Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Escravos and provision of NADF to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall be fully staffed and maintained by CONTRACTOR.
N. Operate COMPANY’S Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Onne Port and provision of WBDF to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall be fully staffed and maintained by CONTRACTOR.
O. Operate COMPANY’S Bulk Mixing & Storage Facility in Onne Port and provision of Completion Brine to COMPANY’S vessels as and when required by COMPANY. Such facility shall be fully staffed and maintained by CONTRACTOR.
P. Rig site Testing Equipment conforming to API RP13B Standards for Testing Drilling Fluids specifications at all of COMPANY’S rigsites. CONTRACTOR shall provide a detailed list of all testing equipment in country and/or readily available and a written guarantee that testing equipment not in country will be available within one (1) calendar month of contract award.
Q. An Onshore Testing laboratory of adequate size and condition including: Testing Equipment conforming to API RP13B Standards for Testing Drilling Fluids specifications and a Malvern mastersizer “Micro” including consumables, a Permeability Plug Tester including consumables
and a Fann 70 LT /HT-HP Rheometer. CONTRACTOR shall provide a detailed list of testing equipment in country and/or readily available and a written guarantee that testing equipment not in country and/or readily
available and a written guarantee that testing equipment not in country will be available within one (1) calendar month of contract award.
R. Rigsite personnel including Junior Drilling Fluid Engineers and Senior Drilling Fluids Engineers as required for the operation.
S. Onshore personnel including an Operations Coordinator and a Technical manager. Such personnel shall be based in Lagos and shall be available on a 224/7 basis as and when required by COMPANY. Such personnel shall provide all reports and documentation including but not limited to Daily Hydraulics Reports. Weekly Inventory Reports. End of Well Reports, Fluids Testing Reports, Regulatory Environmental Reports, as required by COMPANY.
T. Computers & software for all of COMPANY’S rigsites: Such software shall include but shall not be limited to Daily Fluids Report, Daily Inventory Report, Daily Hydraulics Report, End of Well Report.
3. MANDATORY TENDER REQUIREMENTS:
A. To be eligible for this tender exercise, interested contractors are required to be pre-qualified in the 3.01.07 – Drilling/Completion Engineering Services category in the NipeX Joint Qualification System (NJQS) database. All successfully pre-qualified and ‘live’ suppliers in this category by the bid close date will receive invitation to Technical Tender (ITT).
B. To confirm if you are pre-qualified and view the product/service category you are listed for: Open www.vendors.nipex-ng.com and access NJQS with your log in details. Click on Products/Services tab to view your status and product codes.
C. If you are not listed in a product/service category you are registered with NUPRC to do business, contact NipeX office at 27B, Oyinkan Drive, Ikoyi Lagos with your NUPRC certificate as evidence for verification and necessary update.
D. To initiate the JQS prequalification process, access www.nipex-ng.com click on services tab followed by NJQS registration.
E. To be eligible, all tenders must comply with the Nigerian Content requirements in the NipeX sytem.
4. NIGERIAN CONTENT REQUIREMENTS:
CNL is committed to the development of the Nigerian Oil and Gas business in accordance with the Nigerian Oil and Gass Industry Content Development Act 2010 (NOGICD Act) enacted by the Federal Government of Nigeria in April 2010.
Pursuant to enactment of the NOGICD Act, the minimum Nigeria Content in any project, service or product specification to e executed in the Nigeria Oil and Gas industry shall be consisted with the level set in the schedule of the Act and any other target as may be directed by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDM).
Contractors shall comply with the provisions of the NOGICD Act and all applicable regulations. Bidders that do not meet the Nigerian Content criterion will not be allowed to participate in next Tender Stage.
The following are the Nigerian Content requirements bidder are expected to comply with in their technical bid submission.
A. Demonstrate that entity is a Nigerian registered company. Tenderer shall provide evidence of company Ownership Structure form CO2 and CO7, registration on NOGIC JQS and NUPRC certificate.
B. Detailed description of the location of in-country committed facilities & infrastructure (Administrative/Technical offices) in Nigeria to support this contract.
C. Provide evidence of percentage of management that are Nigerian nationals and the percentage of the total workforce that are Nigerians.
D. Tenderers shall provide evidence of Category 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 (Service and Support (SS) group NCEC or Manufacturing and Related Services (MS) (NCEC) demonstrating ownership of in- country blending plant and/or capacity to execute the drilling and completions scope.
E. Tenderer shall comply with the latest approved version of NCDMB HCD guideline by committing (via a letter of undertaking) to providing Project-Specific training, man-hour, budget, skill development and understudy plan for Nigerian personnel utilizing OGTAN registered trainer(s) or other approved MCDMB training institution(s).
Non-compliance with Nigerian Content requirements is a Fatal Flaw
5. CLOSE DATE:
Only tenderers who are pre-qualified and ‘live’ with NJQS Product/Category 3.0107 – Drilling / Completion Engineering Services by 16:00 Hours, 08 January 2025 being the advert close date shall be invited to submit Technical Bids.
6. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. Suppliers eligible for this tender opportunity are expected to be prequalified in NJQS under this product/Service Category.
2. The invitation to Tender (ITT) and any further progression of this tender shall be via NipeX.
3. All costs incurred by interested bidders in preparing and processing NJQS prequalification shall be solely for the interested bidders’ accounts.
4. This advertisement shall neither be construed as any form of commitment on the part of CNL to award any contract to any company and or associated companies, sub-contractors or agents, nor shall it entitle prequalified companies to make any claims whatsoever, and/or seek any indemnity from CNL and or any of its partners or affiliates by virtue of such companies having been prequalified in NJQS.
5. This tendering process shall be the NNPCL contracting process requiring pre-qualified companies to submit technical tenders first. Following a technical review, only technically and financial qualified bidders will be requested to submit commercial tenders.
6. CNL will communicate only with authorized officers of the pre-qualifying companies and NOT through individuals or Agents.
ES/NCDMB/CNL/ADV/UPD/25072024/PROVISION OF DRILLING AND COMPLETION FLUIDS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
