Seatrium Limited (formerly SembCorp Marine and KOM)

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DISPOSAL OF INTEREST IN COSCO SHIPYARD GROUP CO., LTD

http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/Announce...eID=429666

Kind of expected actually. Par down their debts.
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Almost 2 years now with no news on the fate of the 4 Sete Brasil drillships. Since nobody is likely to want to buy them at the full price of US$800m each (in the next year or so), when will impairments on its WIP be made, and if so, how much? Did SCM bill SB in a manner that is progressive to the construction? If so, then it may have hedged most of its risk.

SCM's financials and the industry continues to be in bad shape with negligible new orders for 2016 and 2017:

http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SCM2Q201...eID=464206
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(27-07-2017, 07:48 PM)karlmarx Wrote: Almost 2 years now with no news on the fate of the 4 Sete Brasil drillships. Since nobody is likely to want to buy them at the full price of US$800m each (in the next year or so), when will impairments on its WIP be made, and if so, how much? Did SCM bill SB in a manner that is progressive to the construction? If so, then it may have hedged most of its risk.

SCM's financials and the industry continues to be in bad shape with negligible new orders for 2016 and 2017:

http://infopub.sgx.com/FileOpen/SCM2Q201...eID=464206

we talked about the 4 drillship payments slight more than 1 year ago over here: https://www.valuebuddies.com/thread-1795...#pid128643

SCM also has the option to continue to pretend that it is going to market and operate any (unwanted) rigs themselves.
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Both keppel Corp and sembcorp have changed strategy to focus on non-drilling solutions such as LNG, ship repairs, etc. Dont think they have much of a choice anyway. Only time will tell if this strategy will work. Petrobras has continued to post losses (the last I read).

Mean time, other businesses such as utilities and property would have to pick up the slack.

Don't think they will merge - just a wild guess. The strategic review by sembcorp marine is probably just another sort of thing which the new CEO wants. Happy to be proven wrong.
Winston Churchill:-
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
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Based on 1H17 reporting, 1 small bright light is actually Transocean requesting SCM to resume the building of the 2 drillships. Counter-intuitively, Transocean is going into the exploration portion of upstream E&P by selling all its rigs and focusing on drillships - In other words, it is going higher up in the upstream.

Actually, i think they need a rights issue after the Brazilian and Tuas Shipyard Phase1/2 spending in the boom years. But so far, i am proven wrong (or haven't been proven right)
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Net debt is still increasing. Rights issue may happen still happen as it's harsh long winter - to take the words of others. Both companies have been selling small shipyards and laying off staff, etc to keep costs down.

This is a really wild guess - I was thinking that they may actually sell off their Brazil shipyard. Doubt so as I can imagine the backlash but then again I maybe thinking too much lah
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
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One of the main reason why SCM has not resorted to a rights issue is because it has been able to tap on the "good relationship" it has with bankers to borrow more during this downturn. SCM's borrowings has increased by 8% over the past 6 months or 10% year on year.

So while we think that banks are exerting pressure on smaller O&G counters like Nam Cheong etc, (Local) banks seem to be "willing" to lend more to SCM to tide it over this cycle of down trough.
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SCM/KEPFELS is backed by temasick leh, 3 BIG sg banks has to support... if really got problem, they will take it pte, just like SMRT. Smile
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(28-07-2017, 09:55 AM)weijian Wrote: we talked about the 4 drillship payments slight more than 1 year ago over here: https://www.valuebuddies.com/thread-1795...#pid128643

SCM also has the option to continue to pretend that it is going to market and operate any (unwanted) rigs themselves.

Will the WIP drillship assets carried on its balance sheet be written down, if SCM cannot find another buyer to resume construction? It has S$3.27B of WIP but it was not revealed how much of these belonged to Sete Brasil. How can we estimate the financial impact to SCM if these drillships will not be completed?
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As weijian says SCM can opt to operate the drill ship on its own instead. This will soften the write down it has to take
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