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to Reef’ project in Thailand. The initiative covers a firm period of one hundred and Fuel-oil, crude oil or LPG can be stored in
included relocating idle platforms to create forty-five (145) days starting April 2021, in the tank cars that Cryocan has produced for
artificial reefs, serving as a valuable habitat for Bruneian waters. Sapura Pelaut has been Iraq, Urhan noted.
marine life. operating there for almost 27 years. “The design is completely ours. It is
In Malaysia, its home base, Sapura OE DIGITAL designed and manufactured by our own
Offshore was awarded the transportation and engineers. As a second step, we have started
installation of offshore pipelines under the to produce LPG tank cars for projects aimed
Pan Malaysia Transportation and Installation SERVICES at transporting LPG on railways. The first
of Offshore Facilities umbrella contract, by prototype is ready,” he said.
PTTEP Sarawak Oil Limited. Turkey sends 1st batch Founded in 2009, Cryocan has been
The contract scope of work comprises the growing by 70% on average, settling among
transportation and installation of around of tank cars for Iraqi oil the fastest growing companies in Turkey,
ten kilometers of subsea pipeline, offshore Varank said.
Sarawak. The works are expected to be transport The firm produces cars from 1 cubic meter
completed by May 2021. to 5,000 cubic meters with high-pressure
Also, Sapura Offshore won a sub-contract Turkey has sent off the first batch of tank ranging from 1 bar to 100 bars.
for the transportation and installation of cars to be used for oil and fuel transportation “This is a company that cares about R&D
a wellhead platform jacket and topside at by the Iraq Republic Railways, the country’s (research and development) and innovation
the Kasawari Gas Development Project, by national railway operator. and invests in this field. They can produce
Heerema Marine Contractors. The delivery started on Saturday on the high-tech, value-added products such as
The scope of work comprises project sidelines of a visit by Industry and Technology nitrogen and liquid hydrogen tanks used in
management, procurement, and subcontract Minister Mustafa Varank in the northwestern the defense industry, particle accelerator and
as well as engineering works; expected to Kocaeli’s Dilovasi district. space technologies,” Varank said.
be completed by the second quarter of the Produced by Cryocan company, tank cars Nearly 80% of the company’s sales come
calendar year 2021. were loaded onto trucks before departing for from its exports to some 66 countries, the
Furthermore, Sapura Geosciences has Iraq. The first of 50 units on which production minister noted.
received a Letter of Award from Petronas. for had been completed were sent while a total of Urhan said they have been manufacturing
the provision of marine site investigation and 400 units are still to be manufactured. cryogenic and pressure vessels in Dilovasi for
pipeline route survey services at the Bestari “Tank cars produced in Kocaeli with a high 10 years.
field, offshore Sabah. The works are expected domestic rate will play a major role in the shift Stating that the products are used in the
to be completed by the second quarter FY of Iraqi oil and fuel transportation from land storage of liquid industrial gases, Urhan
2022. Sapura Energy’s fiscal year FY2022 is to the railway,” Varank said. noted that the design, R&D (research and
from February 1, 2021, to January 31, 2022. The company aims to complete the development) and production are being all
Meanwhile, Sapura Baker Hughes, a JV production of up to 100 tank cars by the end being performed in-house at the facilities in
between Sapura Services and Bakers Hughes, of 2021 and deliver them to Iraq, according to Dilovasi.
has won a contract from Malaysia LNG for its General Manager Tekin Urhan. DAILY SABAH
the comprehensive maintenance of Baker Urhan said Iraq plans to shift its oil
Hughes-supplied turbomachinery equipment transport to a railway with around 2,000 tank Jask oil terminal’s 1st SPM
under a long-term service agreement. The cars.
contract is for nine and a half years, effective “Iraq Republic Railways is currently system loaded
February 2021. carrying out a project to shift oil transport
In Brunei, Sapura Energy’s drilling arm from land to rail. It has decided to walk in this The construction of the first single point
Sapura Drilling has secured a contract project together with Cryocan,” Urhan noted. mooring (SPM) system of the Jask crude
extension for its semi-submersible tender “We are sending the first of 50 tanks now. oil export terminal has been completed and
assisted drilling rig, Sapura Pelaut, from long- This production will continue up to 400 units. the SPM is loaded to be shipped toward its
time partner Brunei Shell Petroleum. Our deliveries will continue until the end of designated point in the Gulf of Oman waters,
The Sapura Pelaut contract extension 2022,” the general manager said. the operator of Jask oil terminal project in

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