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West African Ventures – a reliable,
100% Nigerian offshore contracting partner
West African Ventures (WAV),
established in 2000, is a 100% Nigerian
company and a leading indigenous provider of
offshore engineering, procurement, fabrication,
installation and vessel charter services.
With corporate headquarters in Lagos,
a marine support base and shipyard in Warri,
dry-dock and fabrication facilities in Onne
Oil & Gas free zone, WAV continues to provide
excellent offshore support services to the
Nigerian Oil & Gas sector.
WAV maintains a new and flexible fleet of
DP-3 offshore construction vessels, all of which
are based on a hybrid design configuration that
typically combines the following characteristics:
• large, unobstructed decks;
• ability to install either rigid or
flexible pipe, or both;
• high-capacity cranes, ranging from
270-1,800 tonnes, a number of which
have deepwater capability and heave
compensated systems;
• large accommodation capacity of
between 298 and 469 persons;
• dynamic positioning Class 3.
Due to the versatility of this fleet, WAV
has the ability to offer the following range
of services: SURF, Pipelay, Accommodation,
Jascon 39, DP1 AHTS vessel
Vincent Okeke,
Commercial Director,
West African Ventures
Jascon 34, DP3 pipelay/construction vessel
Heavy Lift and Decommissioning. Through
its engineering and operational capabilities in
Nigeria, WAV can offer the above services on
a turnkey EPIC-contract basis.
WAV also owns and operates a large and
diversified fleet of marine support services
vessels in West Africa that provides support
to the oil and gas industry in the area. This
fleet comprises 45 vessels ranging from
AHT/AHTS vessels, crew/pilot boats,
construction/accommodation barges and
offshore cargo barges.
WAV remains highly committed to the
full implementation of the local content
directives of the Nigerian Government by
ensuring 100% compliance with the ‘Local
Content Act’. As a leader in the development
WAV’s 90,000m 2 Fabrication Yard at the
Onne Free Zone, Port Harcourt
of local oil and gas infrastructure in Nigeria,
WAV has continued to make significant
investments to develop a world-class,
Nigeria-branded offshore contractor.
With two well-equipped and resourced
training centres in Nigeria located at the
Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone and Warri, WAV
continues to build sustainable indigenous
capacities for skilled oil and gas industry
personnel, while at the same time creating
unequalled employment opportunities for
the teeming population of young Nigerian
engineers, technicians and craftsmen.
As part of its corporate social responsibility
culture, WAV is also partnering with various
local communities where it operates and
contributing to sustainable rural development,
especially in the areas of infrastructure,
healthcare, education and capacity-building.
For further information on WAV’s capabilities,
including our offshore vessel fleet and
specifications. Please visit our website at
www.waventures.com