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CIMC Raffles bags order to build jack-up

CIMC Raffles bags order to build jack-up
Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore has won an order from Malaysia's Thaumas Marine to build a gas compression jack-up.

Thaumas Marine, subsidiary of Coastal Contracts, will take delivery of the CIMC Taisun 200B design jack-up in 2015.

Mexico's state-owned petroleum firm Pemex will charter the jack-up for a period of eight years with an extension option up to 12 years for work in the Gulf of Mexico.

The jack-up will be capable of operating at water depth up to 55 metres and process gas up to 200m standard cubic feet per day.

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