Bahrain’s ASRY signs six-ship VLCC repair deal with KOTC
Bahrain’s ASRY has secured a six-ship VLCC block booking from KOTC (Source: ASRY)
Leading Arabian Gulf ship repairer ASRY (Arab Shipbuilding Repair Yard), based in Hidd, Bahrain, has signed a six-ship VLCC block booking deal with long-term repeat customer Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC).
Unfortunately, ASRY has been unable to inform SRN of the names of the vessels to be drydocked, or when the tankers will be worked on.
ASRY beat off competition from three other major Arabian Gulf repair yards to secure this work: DDW Dubai, Asyad Drydock Co Ltd (formerly Oman Drydock) and Qatar’s Qatar Shipyard (formerly the Nakilat Keppel Offshore & Marine shipyard).
In 2015, ASRY signed a USD 33 million deal with KOTC for the block repair of 19 vessels – 14 product tankers, four LPG tankers and one OSV. This work saw drydockings taking place over the period from 2015 to 2017
Meanwhile, May 6th saw the following vessels undergoing repair at ASRY:
- Bow Cedar – 37,455dwt 1996-built chemical tanker, owned by Norway’s Odfjell, Bergen
- Admarine 691 – 9,985gt 2008-built jack-up rig, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Ades Group, Al Khobar
- Achus 1 – 1,309m3 capacity 1974-built TSHD, owned by Bahrain’s Al Narnal Group. This vessel was the former British-owned dredger Arco Severn.
- J.P. Bussell – 6,780gt 2008-built jack-up rig, owned by Rowan Drilling UK, Great Yarmouth and managed by Houston, Texas-based Rowan Drilling
- Rawabi 36 – 2,087gt 2011-built multipurpose OSV, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Rawabi Vallianz Offshore Services, Al Khobar
- Jawharah III – 100m x 32m offshore accommodation barge. Owners not known.
- Karan 8 – 2,086gt 1994-built research/survey vessel, owned by Saudi Aramco, Dammam
- Setty – 9,985gt 2010-built jack-up rig, owned by Egyptian Drilling, Cairo
- Desh Shakti – 157,957dwt 2003-built crude oil tanker, owned by India’s Shipping Corporation of India, Mumbai
