Smit Lamnalco Wins Significant Contract in Iraqi Waters
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) associate company Smit Lamnalco wins Single Point Moorings (SPM) support contract from Petrofac. The contract is to support Single Point Mooring operations 20 km off the Al Fao Peninsula for the Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP). The annual contract value is approximately US$-70 million (Boskalis share 50%) and services will commence November 2012. The Single Point Mooring (SPM) contract covers operations and maintenance of four SPM systems.
HHI Capitalizes on Offshore Business
The name Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) usually comes up with a name tag of the worlds largest shipbuilder. But the Ulsan-based company is now dreaming of becoming more than just a shipbuilder, as they have found out that selling offshore oil drilling facilities and industrial plants can be lucrative businesses especially with the soaring oil price, according to a report in the Korea Times. Earlier this month, the company won a $1.3-billion contract from Kuwait Oil Company in upgrading their crude oil export facilities by beating a consortium led by Spanish and Italian companies. It was the largest overseas construction deal won by a South Korea company this year, amounting more than 80 percent of the company’s total sales of such products last year.