Sembcorp Marine secures $417m rig orders from Oro Negro

Sembcorp shipyards basking in booming Mexican demand.

Here's more from OCBC:

Sembcorp Marine (SMM) announced this morning that its subsidiary, PPL Shipyard, has secured orders worth US$417m for the construction of two jack-up rigs from Mexican-based Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro (Oro Negro). Scheduled for delivery at end-4Q14 and end-1Q15, the high-spec rigs will be built based on PPL’s proprietary Pacific Class 400 design. Oro Negro is a repeat customer – it ordered two similar jack-up rigs from SMM in Dec last year at a price of US$217m per unit.

The strong demand coming from Mexico is within our expectations, as PEMEX plans annual capital expenditures of ~US$30b till 2019 to stem the country’s declining oil production. We see SMM as one of the beneficiaries of these developments. Maintain BUY with S$5.84 fair value estimate on SMM. (Low Pei Han)

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