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Monday 30 November 2009

Brooke Dockyard Eyeing Overseas Market For Oil And Gas Jobs

Brooke Dockyard and Engineering Works Corporation is considering expanding oil and gas jobs, especially offshore module fabrication, for the overseas market, including Indonesia and Middle East countries.

Project Management Operations Senior Manager Mohd Ashraf Assai Abdullah said offshore module fabrication had been the core business of the Sarawak-based engineering corporation for the past 14 years.

The corporation is one of the six major Petronas-licensed fabrication companies in the country.

"We feel the oil and gas industry will remain buoyant in the next few years. So we want to take advantage of the unique position that we have to penetrate into the overseas market," he told reporters after handing the Brooke Dockyard Occupational Health and Safety accredited OHSAS 18001:2007 certificates by Sirim QAS International Sdn Bhd to spur further growth in the oil and gas business.

The event was witnessed by Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu who is also State Minister for Infrastructure Development and Communication.

Mohd Ashraf Assai said the company, currently focusing mainly on the domestic market, was developing its business for the overseas market through Petronas, the national oil corporation.

So far Brooke Dockyard had completed 24 offshore oil and gas fabrication projects, including production modules, sub-structures and living quarters, he said.

On the order book for next year, he said the company had identified jobs worth about RM300 million from Petronas, Shell and other oil and gas operators.

The jobs are expected to account for 90 per cent of its revenue, up five per cent in revenue earnings from this year, he said.

The remaining 10 per cent would come from shipbuilding, ship repair and related light engineering work, he said.

The company's main fabrication yard, the eight-hectare Sejingkat Yard at the deep water front, near the new Senari Port in Sejingkat, here, has 8,500 total tonnage capacity for heavy engineering work, shipbuilding, oil and gas and other heavy engineering job.

Brooke Dockyard, established in 1912 as part of the government workshop to repair government ships and machinery besides private vessels, was corporatised in 1994 via the setting up of a new company, Sarawak Shipyard and Engineering Services Sdn Bhd.

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