Aveon Offshore: A Plan Becomes A Final Investment Decision When Decision When Vessels Are Built

40 blocks offered. 120 development plans approved. Someone has to build what comes next.
On 6 October, the NUPRC opened Nigeria’s 2026 Licensing Round: 40 blocks across land, shallow water and deepwater. The regulator also reported that it has approved 120 field development plans since 2024, representing about $47.6 billion in capital expenditure and the potential to add 1.74 million barrels of oil and 13.9 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day.
Those are investment numbers. For a fabrication yard, they are also a delivery question.
A licence becomes a development plan. A plan becomes a final investment decision. A decision becomes jackets, topsides, modules and vessels that have to be built somewhere, to a standard, on a schedule. Where that work gets done depends on whether the capacity already exists when the order lands.
That is why we build ahead of demand. Our yard in Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt covers 330,000 square metres, with a 200-metre waterfront, and more than 10,000 tons of steel structures move through it every year. Capacity like that is not assembled after an award. It is in place before one.
The regulator is targeting 3 million barrels of oil a day by 2030. Getting there takes rigs, wells and platforms, and Nigerian yards and Nigerian hands to deliver them.
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