Seplat Energy has notified the public of the proposed restart of the Yoho Floating and Storage Offshore Platform by second quarter of 2026.
Yoho is undergoing repairs after a fire incident on the facility in October 2025 caused the company to shut down output.
In its just released 2025 annual report, Seplat referenced the Yoho fire issue for the first time in public, although rather obliquely. It noted in a one liner: “Performance moderated by Yoho platform outage, restart expected in 2Q 2026“.
The Yoho shut down has effectively taken off 25,000Barrels of Oil Per Day of Nigerian output since October 2025. Seplat Producing Nigeria Unlimited (SEPNU), the company’s shallow offshore subsidiary which manages the Yoho platform, averaged ≈143,000BOPD (gross, operated output) from its other assets in January 2026. That could easily have been 168,000BOPD if Yoho was in production.
“There were no fatalities largely because the staff was at a work coordination meeting. The company has been mum about the incident. Complete refurbishment of the burnt areas may not be concluded before March 2026”, Africa Oil+Gas Report noted in its December 2025 monthly e-copy edition.
With Seplat’s own update, that report was overly optimistic about Yoho’s return to production.
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