State-owned Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC) is in the market for an early production facility for deployment in OML 11, write Barry Morgan and Iain Esau.

Days after Nigeria President Muhammad Buhari ordered NPDC to assume operatorship of the licence, the company started a pre-qualification exercise — which will close on 8 April — for a 10,000-barrel per day early production facility to be installed at the Korokoro field.