The company has been sued for breaches of JV agreement and supplemental agreement. However, it does not have significant impact on the company because the net profit is enough to cover up a big portion of the claim.
Circular to Shareholders in relation to: Remarks Part (A) Proposed Renewal of Authority to Buy-Back its Own Shares; and Part (B) Proposed Renewal of Shareholders' Mandate for the Existing Recurrent Related Party Transactions of a Revenue or Trading Nature and Provision of Financial Assistance
US marketing Maccagno and Ariesza sat down with 10 fund managers representing nine fund management companies in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Salt Lake City, Boston and New York City. It was largely a series of introductory meetings as only three out of the 10 fund managers had met with management before, although all were familiar with Wah Seong’s competitor Bredero. With a market capitalisation of US$269m, Wah Seong was generally perceived as an emerging-market small-cap. Valuations were viewed as cheap at 7-8x FY15-16 P/Es, but liquidity was deemed insufficient with an average daily turnover of only US$0.07m. In FY13, Wasco contributed 62% and 85% to Wah Seong’s revenue and pretax profit, respectively (Figures 1 and 2). The two businesses under Wasco are pipe-coating and engineering. The former is mostly carried out at the company’s world-class facility in Kuantan, while the latter entails the design, fabrication and engineering of mostly offshore structures, such as gas compressors, at yards in Singapore, Batam and Dubai.
Petronas in talks with First Nation Saturday, 6 June 2015
It wants to resolve issues related to aboriginal group’s concerns on Canada project
PARIS: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), which is currently awaiting environmental approval for its proposed multi-billion ringgit liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Canada, is engaging with the Canadian aboriginal group known as First Nation to resolve issues related to the group’s concerns.
Executive vice-president and chief executive officer of upstream Datuk Wee Yeow Hin said the proposed project had a good business case to proceed, although it had yet to make a final investment decision.
“We have not made a decision yet whether to proceed with the project. We’re hoping to make the decision soon. At the same time, we have to work with the First Nation to resolve their concerns before we can proceed with the project,” Wee told Bernama on the sidelines of the 26th World Gas Conference here.
The aboriginal group earlier rejected an offer of C$1bil (RM2.97bil) in return for supporting the export terminal, saying the development would harm a fish habitat next to the project site.
Asked whether consent from the First Nation community was required for the project to proceed, Wee said, “We will always make sure that we manage our stakeholders. Our (business) model is always to work with them.”
The Petronas-led Pacific NorthWest LNG project in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada, involves the construction of facilities to process and export natural gas to be produced by Progress Energy Canada Ltd.
An earlier report said the total investment by Petronas and its partners at roughly C$36bil include the construction of the Pacific NorthWest LNG export terminal near the northern city of Prince Rupert, a natural gas pipeline and ongoing gas development.
Meanwhile, vice-president of Global LNG Project Adnan Zainol Abidin said Petronas was waiting for the environmental permit from the federal regulator.
The project received environmental approval from the provincial government last year.
“We can’t tell when exactly they are going to issue, but we hope sooner than later. We hope to achieve something in weeks rather than months,” he added.
Adnan said the group was working on multiple tracks, including working closely with the federal and provincial governments as well as the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, and continuing to engage the First Nation community to address their concerns.
“We work constructively so that we can see how can we move the project forward because we are of the opinion that the project is beneficial to the community and country,” he added. — Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR (June 30): CIMB Investment Bank Bhd has advised investors to accumulate shares in Wah Seong Corp Bhd ( Financial Dashboard), as the brokerage sees the group’s inroads in Europe and North America as potential catalysts.
In a note today, CIMB said the group could potentially secure a second contract with Statoil in Norway, worth upwards of US$100 million (RM377.35 million), following the success of the RM627 million pipe-coating contract for Statoil’s Polarled project.
“Management is looking forward to potentially securing a second contract — worth no less than US$100 million — with Statoil in Norway, where it already has an onsite, mobile plant that is handling the Polarled pipes and is aiming to further serve the North Sea market.
“The contract winner is expected to be announced in July or August 2015, before the contract commences in 2016,” said the research house.
Meanwhile, CIMB noted that Wah Seong (fundamental: 0.95; valuation: 2.60) is also bidding for potentially recurring jobs in North America, via its 49%-owned Bayou Wasco’s deepwater plant in Louisiana as its key asset.
For its operations in Malaysia, the research house said it is positive on the group’s small presence in Pengerang, as Wah Seong delivered the first shipment of spiral-welded onshore steel pipes for the RM202 million Pengerang contract, earlier this month.
It also said production has started at Wah Seong’s Sabah and Penang facilities last month, following a letter of intent received in the first quarter of this year.
“As at March 31, 2015, Wah Seong had orders worth RM1.2 billion, of which 59% came from oil & gas, 25% from renewable energy and 16% from industrial trading and services. Its tender book is worth RM5 billion, of which 80% consists of oil & gas jobs,” said CIMB.
Wah Seong was unchanged at RM1.32 at 11.40am today. Its market capitalisation was RM1.02 billion.
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