Sembcorp Marine is investing in a multi-functional steel fabrication facility which will significantly enhance automation and productivity at its offshore rig building, conversion and production and ship-repair businesses.
To be located at its Sembmarine Integrated Yard @ Tuas location, the new steel fabrication facility will offer a streamlined, seamless and extensively automated production process from steel stock yard to final assembly and finishing shop. Total investment in the fabrication facility is $222 million.
When completed in 3Q2015, the new facility will be equipped with advanced equipment and machinery, and will have a tonnage capacity of more than three times that of the existing hull shop at the Group’s Tanjong Kling yard. Together with the optimal layout, overall efficiency is expected to more than double.
The steel fabrication facility is designed eventually to be the central kitchen for steel fabrication for all three phases of the new Tuas yard.
Further to the group’s earlier announcement on Phase II of the Sembmarine Integrated Yard @ Tuas (SIY@Tuas) on December 2012, Sembcorp Marine wishes to highlight that construction has started at the 34.5 hectare site.
Given the robust demand for its four VLCC dry docks in Phase I, the group intends to build another three dry docks on the Phase II site, of which two will be 150,000 dwt capacity (dimensions of 255 metres by 52 metres by minus 8 metres), while the third will be a dedicated offshore dry dock (dimensions 255 metres by 110 metres by minus 12 metres depth) for offshore rig-building, upgrades and repairs.
Located along Tuas South Boulevard at the south western tip of Singapore, the 34.5 hectare site is the second phase of the planned 206-hectare Sembmarine Integrated Yard @ Tuas Facility that the group will develop as the leading, next generation fully integrated marine engineering hub for ship-repair, offshore rig-building, and for the conversion and building of specialized oil & gas vessels and platforms.
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