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The recent boom in oil and gas
sectors has created an unprecedented demand for
offshore supply shipping, oil tanker and gas
carriers as reflected in the entry of several
new players and new investments in shipping.
A major supply-side response has been in
investments in petroleum and gas tankers and
also in the technically-more-sophisticated
deepwater vessels for the offshore sector.
Recent survey reveals that more than three
billion ringgit worth of ships and vessels have
been ordered or delivered in the first six
months period of this year.
Bumi Armada Bhd, a leading offshore marine
transportation services provider, announced
investments worth RM1.2 billion to acquire 17
deepwater offshore vessels.
The support ships will be delivered is stages by
end of 2008 from Nam Cheong Dockyard Sdn Bhd and
other regional yards from Singapore and China.
The deliveries will enhance Bumi Armada total
oil and gas vessels to 57.
Meanwhile, Scomi Marine Bhd has also announced
RM650mil expansion plan to acquire six
deep-water anchor-handling tugs and supply boats
and three offshore support vessels.
Scomi Marine anticipates receiving four of the
AHTS vessels next year while the remaining two
will be delivered in 2009 and 2010 to cope with
oil and gas industry demands in its key markets
in Malaysia, Australia, India and Indonesia said
its group chief executive officer, Shah Hakim
Zain.
The second board company in Bursa Malaysia, ALAM
Maritim Resources Bhd (AMRB) will be taking
delivery of nine offshore support vessels (OSV)
valued at RM200mil to RM250mil.
The nine vessels that consist of three anchor
handling tugs, five supply vessels and one DP2
vessel.
With the deliveries the company would have a
total of 24 offshore supply vessels with an
average age of two to three years.
Petra Perdana Bhd has proposed to buy a new
anchor handling/offshore support vessel from S K
Line Co Ltd for RM49.7mil.
The proposed purchase was in line with the
company's fleet renewal plan to provide marine
support services to offshore oil and gas
facilities.
The vessel was expected to be delivered by June
2008.
In the tanker sector, Gagasan Carriers Sdn Bhd
has announced its RM461.4mil investment plan on
eight new chemical tankers.
The company has placed orders for three new
building in Korea amounting to RM209.7mil, two
in China for RM104.9mil and the three in
Malaysia for RM146.8mil and all these ships will
be delivered by 2009.
“This is timely and important move as palm oil
has to be carried only on chemical tankers since
January 2007 and there is a need to provide
sufficient capacity to carry our own products
said,” its managing director Captain Johari Mohd
Noh.
Besides that Global Carrier Bhd has also
announced on the acquisition of two 7,000 dwt
clean product tankers for RM70 million from
China's Ningbo Dong Fang Shipyard Co Ltd.
These ships will be delivered by stages by
August 2008. Plans are in pipeline for Global
Carrier to acquire four more ships by 2010.
Nepline Berhad has also announced on its
expansion plan to acquire one unit of 7,000 dead
weight clean double hull product tanker and an
Aframax tanker.
Perhaps the largest investments come Petronas,
which earlier this year took delivery of two LNG
tankers and has on order for a further four more
tankers being built in Korea at a cost of about
US$180 million a piece.
The delivery in 2007 and 2008 will bring the
total to 28 LNG tankers, keeping its world
leadership in LNG fleet ownership and operation.
The national oil corporation which through its
wholly owned subsidiary owns and operators AET
Inc Ltd, ordered size Aframax oil tankers for
delivery in 2010 and 2011.
The investments in the tanker and gas trades are
in addition to its recent investments in
floating production, storage and offloading
facilities.
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