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Alam Maritim Resources - Pulling in a Workboat Contract

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Publish date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012, 08:41 AM
THE BUZZ  

Alam announced  yesterday  that  its  100%-owned  subsidiary,  Alam  Maritim  (M)  SB,  has accepted  the  award  from  a  local  oil  &  gas  company  to  provide  one  workboat.  The contract is for a primary period of one year, with an extension option exercisable by its client for another twelve months. 

OUR TAKE  

A RM69.2m contract. We understand that the contract is valued at RM69.2m assuming that  Alam's client engages the workboat for the full duration, inclusive of the optional period.  However,  we  make  no  changes  to  our  FY12-13  estimates  as  we  had  earlier assumed some job replenishments for the company's vessels.

Operational risks a major concern. The risks associated with the contract are mainly operational, such as accidents and  the unexpected breakdown of vessels. In mitigating them,  the  company  developed  a  programme  maintenance  schedule  which  stringently adheres  to  the  International  Safety  Management  (ISM)  Standards  in  maintaining  the performance and seaworthiness of all its vessels.
 
More  jobs  in  the  pipeline.  We  expect  more  projects  to  be  handed  out  to  Alam  in  the next  six  months.  To  recap,  Petronas  and  its  PSC  contractors  who  are  focusing  on marginal  oilfield,  enhanced  oil  recovery  and  brownfield  services  dished  out  tenders worth  RM8bn-10bn.  Besides  Dayang  (BUY  FV  RM2.75)  and  Petra  Energy  (BUY  FV RM1.94), Alam could benefit from these tenders as its other anchor handling tug supply (AHTS)  vessels  as  well  as  supply  and  utility  vessels  would  be  put  to  further  use  when these projects are handed out.
 
Maintain  BUY.  As  stock  has  underperformed  the  broad  market  in  the  last  12  months, we believe that it is trading at an attractive valuation of merely 5.3x FY13 EPS. Investors may opt to accumulate, in view of its weak share price. All in all, we are maintaining our FV at RM0.97, pegged to an existing 12x of its 12-months forward earnings.


Source: OSK
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