马来西亚UMW公司首次与外国公司合作

The Kuala Lumpur-based company, which had a record loss last year as it idled six out of eight drilling rigs, hopes to forge alliances with overseas firms to boost its chances of winning jobs beyond its home base of Southeast Asia, President Rohaizad Darus said in an interview, declining to name the companies. Charter rates have reached a bottom and the industry is showing signs of a slow recovery amid gains in oil, he said. The stock is poised for its best weekly gain in three months. It fell 1.1 percent at 10:33 a.m. local time. “We are already jointly bidding for contracts with our partners, and the alliances would be formalized after we get them,” Rohaizad said by phone. “My main objective is to get the rigs to work. We are seeing some recovery, but it will be slow.”

Crude has surged about 85 percent from a 12-year low in January, boosting the outlook for oil and gas service providers. They were the worst performers on Malaysia’s stock market in the past two years as the rout in oil dried up demand for their services and sparked a price war on charter rates.
Charter rates for drilling rigs dropped from a peak of $180,000 a day in late 2014 to about $100,000 a day in the third quarter of 2015, and are probably now less than $70,000 in Southeast Asia today, according to CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. in a report last week.

Earlier this week, the company won a charter contract from Petronas Carigali Sdn., the exploration arm of state oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd.