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章立人离开中集来福士后东山再起:拿下1+3自升钻井平台订单
Singaporean entrepreneur Brian Chang is making a speedy comeback in the rig business, placing an order for up to four large jack-ups for his new investment company Calm Oceans.
The order comes just months after Chang staged a complete withdrawal from CIMC Raffles, the Chinese yard he founded in 1994.
Calm Oceans placed an order early this week with Chinese yard group Nantong Blue Island Offshore (BI), for an undisclosed value, for the speculative construction of one jack-up with options for three more.
The first option is to be declared this August.
The newbuild unit has an operating water depth of 500 feet and is poised to become biggest jack-up ever built in China.
The Zentech Z-636 design rig has an accommodation capacity of 200 staff.
It is classed by DNV and is fully compliant to Norway’s Norsok standards, deployable in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea year-round in 400 feet of water.
The unit, currently without any charter agreement, will be operated by Troll Drilling & Services and GMC Ltd, both partners of Calm Oceans, upon delivery in 18 months’ time.
Chang aims to use Calm Oceans rigs to carry out drilling, pro duction, decommissioning and accommodation services in the North Sea.
Calm Oceans will later decide, based on market conditions, whether to fit the first rig with a drilling package, without which it will only be used as an accommodation unit, a company official said. For now, the company will only build the deck box, three legs and the living quarters.
Calm Oceans is also pursuing opportunities to build power barges in China.
BI is an offshore engineering and fabrication provider established by businessman Dou Jianguo in Nantong in Jiangsu province.
BI’s yard in Qidong county, in Nantong, covers 380,000 square metres at the northern bank of the mouth of the Yangtze River, about 10 kilometres from the Yellow Sea.
BI also owns Haiyang Blue Island Offshore in Yantai, Shandong province.
The Haiyang yard undertakes construction work under the management of CIMC Raffles.
The 69-year-old Chang established CIMC Raffles as the Yantai Raffles yard in 1994. He stepped back into more of a supporting role after China’s top container builder CIMC bought a 55.21% stake from Chang in 2009.
He shed all his shares in CIMC Raffles late last year and now is its independent director.
After leaving CIMC Raffles, Chang created Calm Oceans in Singapore in December 2011 under Brian Chang Holdings, formerly known as Senator Investment. |
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