Equipment procurement and technical vetting
The right equipment, verified before you buy.
We source drilling rigs, workover barges, early production facilities, gas compression and well equipment for operators in Nigeria and West Africa, and verify every unit against your technical specification.
The problem
Buying used oilfield equipment is risky
01
Listings that don't match reality
Broker sheets often overstate ratings, omit equipment or hide the unit's identity.
02
Prices that don't match value
The same asset can be offered by several intermediaries at very different prices.
03
Equipment that doesn't fit the job
Water depth, pressure rating, capacity or fluid properties rule out many units before price is even discussed.
Our approach
Engineering-led procurement
Find
Direct access to owners, manufacturers and rental fleets, not just broker chains.
Verify
Independent checks of identity, ownership, class, certification and specification.
Protect
Valuation, negotiation support, confidentiality and clean transaction structures.
Services
What we source
New, used and refurbished equipment, each unit checked against the specification your operation requires.
Swamp rigs, jack-ups, workover barges and vessels
Swamp barge rigs, shallow-water jack-ups, workover barges, hydraulic workover units and support vessels.
Early production facilities (EPF)
New, refurbished and ex-rental EPFs, skid-mounted processing trains and barge-mounted facilities.
Gas compression and conditioning
Reciprocating compressor packages, vapor recovery, gas conditioning, metering and gas-fired power.
Well intervention equipment
Thru-tubing packers, sand control tools, cement retainers, completion systems and pressure control equipment.
Other oil and gas equipment
Top drives, BOP stacks, mud pumps, generators, cranes, separators, tanks and other surface equipment.
Financing for US-sourced equipment
Access to US-based equipment financing for rigs, production facilities, compression and well equipment. We prepare the technical and valuation package the financier needs, and coordinate export to your site.
How we work
From requirement to commissioning
01
Define the requirement
Requirements brief
02
Search the market
Candidate shortlist
03
Verify identity and specification
Specification gap review
04
Value and recommend
Valuation and recommendation
05
Inspect and negotiate
Inspection scope and offer strategy
06
Close, deliver and commission
Closing checklist
Technical depth
Engineers, not just intermediaries
Our work is led by mechanical design experience in oilfield equipment, including blowout preventers, subsea trees, subsea intervention systems and surface wellheads, and by current consulting on production optimization and chemical injection in the Niger Delta.
That background is why we read a specification sheet the way an equipment designer does: rating by rating, against the wells the equipment has to serve.
- Pressure control
- BOP and subsea tree design
- Subsea
- Intervention systems design
- Surface
- Wellhead equipment design
- Production
- Optimization and chemical injection
- Research
- Wax deposition in Nigerian crude production
- Data
- AI and machine learning engineering
What you receive
Documented, decision-ready findings
Every vetting engagement ends with written findings you can take to your board, your financiers or your engineers.
- Specification gap review
- Identity and ownership verification
- Independent value range
- Inspection and survey scope
- Recommendation on whether to proceed
Case studies
Swamp drilling rig, Niger Delta
A Nigerian operator was offered a 3,000 HP swamp rig at asking prices up to $90M. We traced the listing and found the same rig was being marketed by at least three intermediaries at different prices. Our independent valuation placed it far below the asking price, giving the buyer a defensible basis for negotiation.
Broker specification check
A broker’s spec sheet described a working rig with a 15,000 psi BOP stack at $70M “firm.” Comparing it line by line with the owner’s own published brochure showed the annular and double rams were rated lower than claimed. We identified the owner directly, removing a buyer-paid broker commission of several million dollars.
Early production facility specification
An operator planning six wells needed a 10,000 BOPD facility. Using eight months of well test data, we showed that associated gas, not oil, would drive the design, and wrote a specification for a barge-mounted EPF with compression for gas sales.
Tell us what you need to produce, drill or intervene. We'll tell you what equipment fits, what it should cost, and where to find it.