Favourites are starting to emerge for ExxonMobil's Ibot project off Nigeria ahead of the submission of commercial tenders. Ibot was originally to be part of Mobil's Satellites Fields Development Phase 2 (SFD2) project but was split off into a separate tender that went through the highly competitive NTPEX system. Earlier this quarter the US major and NAPIMS finally selected a dozen groups to receive invitations to tender and sources now suggest the real list of contenders is down to a handful of companies that have their own yards.
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