10.07.2008
Libyaninvestment.com

PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR  

2D SEISMIC ACQUISITION

NC-115 BLOCK 

CONFIDENTIAL

CONTRACTOR: ……………………………………………

DATE: …………………………………………………………

 Tripoli , July 2008

To whom it may concern

We would like to inform you that Akakus Oil Operations (AOO) is currently carrying out a Contractor Pre-qualification process, in order to have an Approved Bidder List to tender a “2D Seismic Acquisition Services in NC115 Block”.

As to perform this process, AOO has created certain questionnaire requesting basic information of companies to qualify that will have to be properly filled out and returned to the address below. Should said questionnaires not reach us at the requested date, your candidature will not be in the Approved Bidder List.

The data you will provide to us will be analyzed by our Bid Committee, and if needed, we will inform you if an audit of your company would need to be performed.

If results of data analysis and audit (in case it is needed) are positive, your company will be added to our Approved Bidder List.

Adding your company to the Approved Bidder List will not guarantee that a Contract will substitute any of Akakus Oil Operation’s tender processes.

Please make sure that the information you provide in this questionnaire is truthful and honest, Akakus Oil Operations doesn’t assume any kind of responsibility derived from it. All this information will be kept in strict confidentiality, according to applicable laws as per the attached questionnaires.

Please, send completed questionnaires to the following address on or before July 17 th, 2008 :

 
DATA PROTECTION CLAUSE

In fulfilment of the established in the applicable legislation regarding data protection, we informed you that all data included in the present form, data that is in any case necessary to permit to Akakus Oil Operations to evaluate the benefit of your services, will be incorporated to an electronic file under the responsibility of Akakus Oil Operations with the objective to make possible that your company could be considered in future processes of qualification of suppliers/contractors of Akakus Oil Operations and, also, to be able to offer technical information to your company regarding the necessity to contract products or services of similar nature of the companies of Akakus Oil Operations and in which you or your company could be interested.

Please, take in consideration that the answer to each and every one of the questions contained in the present form are optional, not being able to derive from its refusal to provide them more consequences than the exclusion of your company in the process of pre-qualification of suppliers/contractors.

By means of the acceptance of the present clause, you specifically allow the treatment of the provided data, as well as in the cession or communication of such data to Akakus Oil Operations personnel.

You declare the express consent the treatment, to the cession and the communication before exposed, of the people whose personal data have been facilitated when complimenting the present form, exonerating to Akakus Oil Operations of any responsibility, of the all nature on the matter.

Akakus Oil Operations guarantees the confidentiality of the facilitated data and that such will be treated in accordance with the purpose for which they have been gathered. Likewise, Akakus Oil Operations guarantees that, according to the applicable norm, have been adopted the technical and organizational measures necessary to avoid alteration, loss, treatment or non-authorized access.

In the same way, be informed that your Company can exercise, at any moment, the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition, in fulfilment of the applicable laws of protection of personal character data, by means of written communication.

Akakus Oil Operations

I hereby state that I have read and accept the conditions set forth in the data protection clause.

Signature

PRE-QUALIFICATION FORM

(Contractors)

Those wishing to express an interest in bidding for these services, contractor should provide the following pre-qualification information to AOO to the attention of, as mentioned in the cover page.

  GENERAL INFORMATION:

Name:

Address:

Country:

ZIP:

Telephone:

Fax:

Email:

Type of Industry:

Type of organization (public ltd, ltd company, sole trader or partnership):

Website:

Contact Person details (name, position, telephone, e-mail):

Foundation year:

Already worked in Libya:

Sponsor:

Local Branch / Partner in Libya;

Company registration number:

Date of registration:

REGISTRATION FORM

Documents that prove your Company is allowed to run operations or work in Libya, such us but not limited to the following documents:

·         Commercial Registration

·         Tax Registration

·         Chamber of Commerce Registration

·         Ministry of Commerce Registration

DOCUMENTS TO BE PROVIDED

·         Organization structure including organigram

·         Organization within Libya

·         No. of employees with the company and working in Libya

·         Details of your operations in Libya for the past 5 years with Manpower details.

·         Details of registration, Trade Licenses other licenses held/ obtained from various Authorities.

·         Copy of Audited balance sheet and profit and Loss A/c for the last 3 years.

·         Details of your banker with whom you deal with.

·         Provide CV of your key personnel

FINANCIAL TABLE

 Full audited accounts for the last three financial years

(All figures in Thousand US Dollars)

 TURN OVER FOR  (LAST 3 YEARS)

- net income:

- gross income:

- year:

BALANCE SHEET INFORMATION (FOR the LAST 3 YEARS

- year:

- fixed assets:

- current assets:

- current liabilities:

- paid up capital:

- long term LIABILITIES:

CONTRACTOR’s AUDITORS:

ADDRESS:

NAME:

CONTRACTOR’S BANKERS:

- DETAILS/CONDITIONS:

- AMOUNT:

ADDRESS:

BANK/INSTITUTE NAME:

 EXPERIENCE TABLE

Experience / Details of operations at present and in the past 5 years shall be provided in the following format. (Enclose proof of services and performance certificates from the concerned establishments). The experience should include Libyan experience especially at remote sites.

(All figures in Thousand US Dollars)

On going / completed:

Location:

Approximate value of contract:

SOW:

Brief scope of work:

 Contract period/ and duration:

Client name and contact details:

MAIN CLIENTS - REFERENCES

 Please provide written references from at least 3 clients for whom you have delivered similar requirements in recent years.

Contact Person:

Country:

Company Name:

ETHICS

COMPLIANCE AND ETHICS QUESTIONNAIRE:

PART ONE – CURRENT PRACTICES

1- Do you have an ethical conduct policy within your organization? Please describe your policy in detail.

2- Does this policy cover key areas such as legality, bribery, child labour and treatment of employees?

3- Do you have ways to verify that your employees follow the policy such as auditing, monitoring, annual certification or other forms of compliance and ethics evaluation.

PART TWO - PREVIOUS HISTORY

4- Legality - Has your company or its employees ever been prosecuted for breaking laws and regulations:

a) in your country of business;

b) in the country of delivery;

c) any other countries?

If so, please describe each case and the outcome of settlement.

Health, Safety and Environment

HSE ASSURANCE:

1- Do you have an HSE Management System in place and if so to what international standard does it comply.

2- Describe your approach to HSE Assurance of field crew operations. How do you ensure that crews are fully compliant with all elements of your corporate HSE MS ? How are the senior office-based managers involved? Please attach a copy of your HSE policy.

3- Has major Oil companies audited your corporate HSE management system? If so, when.

4- Do you have experience with international HSE standards such as those specified by International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) or International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC)? If yes, please explain how you use international HSE Standards.

5- Please provide your HSE performance statistics on 2D acquisition projects for each of the last 5 years. Provide onshore statistics. For each year, include:

Number of Fatalities

Number of LTl's

Number of Restricted Work Cases

Total Exposure Hours

LTI frequency/million man-hours

Total Recordable Incident Frequency/million man-hours

6- What is your policy regarding the use of specialist HSE Advisors during land

Seismic data acquisition .

7- Briefly explain your Waste Management policies and practices on 2D/ 3D land crews.

8- Describe your approach to reducing environmental impact in highly sensitive desert areas.

9- How many dedicated HSE advisors do you have on each 2D land crew and what are their roles/ responsibilities.

10- Please list what you consider to be the 10 highest risk activities in an onshore 2D project and what mitigations you have in place to minimize those risks.

11- Please provide details of how mobilization and crew changes would be handled for "GSPLAJ" projects. In particular, please address:

Mode of crew change;

Local visas for personnel

12- Please provide details of typical facilities and equipment and trained medical personnel.

13- Please state grade of fuel and give estimate of monthly fuel usage for a typical 2D seismic operation.

Onshore 3D Seismic Acquisition Experience

RELEVANT SEISMIC PROJECT EXPERIENCE

1. Please provide experience works in providing land 2D seismic data acquisition services inside and outside Jamahiriya (dates, Km. area and Client name) of Surveys conducted in the last 5 years.

Please, indicate if your company has experience conducting 2D seismic acquisition projects onshore "GSPLAJ". Do you understand the "GSPLAJ" regulatory requirements?

Do you have the resources and capability to obtain all the permits required? If so, provide details.

2- Please, indicate if your company has sufficient personnel and equipments to survey at the same time for approximately 1,200 km of 2D seismic lines

3- What is the largest 2D survey that your company has acquired in the last 24 months?

4- Evaluate, please, calendar time for performance of 2D seismic data acquisition 1200 km in size, assume 240 channels in active spread VP spacing 30 m, sweep length 8 sec 4 sweeps per VP.

5- Could you mobilize your crews and start acquisition 2D seismic data from 15 August 2008?

6- Please provide experience records and CVs of key services personnel for 2D seismic data acquisition.

7- Please, provide experience in using new technologies introduced within last three years.

EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES

1- Please provide details of all vibrators in your fleet (type, quantity, age, GPS Vibe positioning Unit, vibrator electronics and Controller, quality assurance equipment).

2- Please provide details of Recording System and tape cartridges for 2D seismic data acquisition ( type, age).

3- Describe, please, how you plan to provide Quality control in place for all aspects of surveying and positioning work.

4- Describe, please, how you plan to provide field seismic data QC and processing.

5- Please, provide details of acquisition of Uphold Data (Uphole recording equipment, Uphole energy source, uphole logging equipment).

6- Please provide experience records and CVs of key services personnel for acquisition of Uphole data.

7- Evaluate, please, calendar time for performance of Uphole program for 250 holes to acquire near surface velocity data down to 100m.