Keppel Verolme lands a double

Rotterdam-based Keppel Verolme, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has won two contracts totaling S$160 million on the back of an upsurge of offshore activities in the North Sea.

Keppel had secured a repeat order for the outfitting of the floating production, storage and offloading facility Sevan Voyageur for Norway’s Sevan Production. Work is expected to be completed in the summer of 2008. This is the third cylindrical FPSO facility that Keppel Verolme is carrying for the same owner. The world’s first cylindrical FPSO facility, Sevan Piranema, was completed in Keppel Verolme in January 2007. Keppel had also won a contract for the drydocking of the Saipem 7000, a semi-submersible crane and pipelaying DP vessel for Italy’s Saipem. Saipem 7000 is the world’s second largest crane vessel with lifting capabilities of up to 14,000 tonnes.
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