Viking Strengthens Partnership with Lobby Marine Veteran
Viking Offshore & Marine Limited has announced it would participate in the ownership of a second cantilever drilling jack-up rig, further strengthening its partnership with Singapore rig veteran, Chan Kwan Bian as it accelerates its entry into mainstream offshore rig chartering. SGX Catalist-listed Viking said its wholly-owned Viking Asset Management Pte. Ltd. (VAM) will invest US$5.4 million to take a 30%-stake in Quick Booms Investments Limited (“QBI”), a special purpose vehicle controlled by Chan which has a contract with a yard to build the CJ46-X100-D GustoMSC designed for use in water depth up to 375 feet and can accommodate 120 men during operation.
Drydocks World Confident of Restructuring its Debt
Dubai - Drydocks World LLC (DDW) has been in dialogue with its core group of lenders since late 2011 to develop a proposal for the restructuring of its debt obligations under its $2.2 billion syndicated facility. With the support of its wider stakeholders, significant progress has been made over recent months in all aspects of the restructuring. As a result, DDW can today announce that it is confident that it will receive the support of a majority of its syndicated lenders to the terms of its debt restructuring. Consequently, on March 8, 2012, DDW will present the terms of its proposal and the steps required to implement it, along with the associated timeline to all its syndicated lenders.
Dubai Drydocks Moves into Singapore Market
Dubai Drydocks World LLC (DD World), the recently-launched maritime holding company, and a member of Dubai World, announced its first major overseas acquisition by making a voluntary conditional cash offer for Pan-United Marine Limited (PUM) of Singapore. PUM is a major shipyard with facilities in both Singapore and Batam, Indonesia. DD World made a voluntary conditional cash offer for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares of PUM and has received irrevocable undertakings from the controlling shareholders of PUM to accept the Offer from DD World in respect of 70 per cent of all the shares in PUM in the aggregate. Like DD World, PUM is involved in ship repair, ship building and conversions.