Keppel Offshore & Marine units secure S$110 million contracts
Posted: 9 December 2003
Keppel Corporation Limited, through its offshore and marine units
under Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has clinched
several contracts amounting to about S$110 million.
They are for the conversion of a Floating Storage and Offloading
(FSO) unit, the construction of four Anchor Handling Tug/Supply
(AHTS) vessels, repair of a maintenance vessel, upgrade of a semisubmersible
drilling unit and additional work on an offshore platform.
Keppel Shipyard will carry out the conversion of 1988 Aframax tanker
M.T. Namsan Spirit to FSO Pattani Spirit for Teekay Shipping Corporation.
Upon completion in the second quarter of 2004, FSO Pattani Spirit
will be deployed in the Gulf of Thailand with Unocal Thailand.
Keppel Singmarine will also build two 70-tonne bollard pull AHTS
for Gulfmark Offshore Inc and another two 65-tonne bollard pull
AHTS for Hadi H. Al-Hammam Est (HHE) . The vessels for Gulfmark
Offshore and HHE have been scheduled for delivery in the first quarter
of 2005 and the last quarter of 2004 respectively.
Said Mr Goh Boon Kiat, Executive Director for Keppel Singmarine,
“We are pleased that both Gulfmark Offshore and Hadi H. Al-Hammam
have chosen Keppel Singmarine to build the AHTS vessels for them.
We have built a track record of delivering high quality vessels
on time and on budget.”
Keppel Singmarine has also been awarded a major refit job for RFA
Diligence, a maintenance vessel. With a displacement of 10,765 tonnes,
RFA Diligence is the third vessel awarded to Keppel Singmarine by
the same owner, after the successful repair and refurbishment of
RFA Sir Tristram and RFA Bayleaf in the first half of 2003.
Meanwhile, AMFELS has won a contract to upgrade a semisubmersible
drilling unit, Ocean America from Diamond Offshore.
Teekay is the leading provider of international crude oil and petroleum
product transportation services, transporting more than ten percent
of the world's sea-borne oil.
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Service is a civilian-manned fleet
owned by the British Ministry of Defence.
Gulfmark Offshore is a premier niche participant providing offshore
and marine services primarily to companies involved in offshore
exploration and production of oil and natural gas.
Hadi H. Al Hammam Est (HHE) with its headquarters in Saudi Arabia,
is one of the leading general contracting, trading and marine service
providers to the oil and gas and petrochemical industries in the
Middle East.
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., a leading deepwater drilling contractor,
owns and operates one of the largest fleets of offshore drilling
units in the world.
Based in Singapore, Keppel Offshore & Marine is a leading offshore
and marine group with a network of 16 yards worldwide in Singapore,
USA, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Philippines, UAE, The Netherlands
and Norway.
The contracts are not expected to have any significant impact on
the net tangible assets and earnings per share of Keppel Corporation
for the financial year ending 31 December 2003.
For more information see http://www.kepcorp.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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