COMPANY PROFILE
2014
PT ANGGREKHITAM
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A quality focus in Indonesia Editorial: Roland Douglas
As the offshore industry in Indonesia continues to grow, the country’s shipyards are coming under increased pressure to keep up with demand for quality products that are built to increasingly high standards. General Manager of one of the country’s leading shipyards, PT AnggrekHitam, tells Total World Energy that the yard is currently busy with the construction of two product oil carriers and hopes to build small LNG tankers in the future… The Indonesian offshore and marine industry is looking extremely healthy right now. There
the Asia-Pacific region. The Indonesian National Shipowners Association (INSA)
and more than 500 supporting industries for this sector. INSA chairwoman Carmelita Hartoto
are a number of projects going up in the region, and Singapore, Malaysia and Australia are all home to major oil and gas projects that are forcing more and more attention to be focussed on offshore and marine engineering in
says that Indonesia will see around 20 percent growth in the shipping industry, on the back of the country’s healthy economic performance. INSA’s stats show that currently there are more than 70 shipyards located in Batam
said in 2013 that most local players, especially those involved in coal and offshore oil and gas, would add more vessels to expand their business. The additional 560 ships, including tug boats, bulk carriers, platform service
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PT ANGGREKHITAM vessels diving service vessels and tankers, increased the number of Indonesian flagged ships to 12,600 in 2013. And as well as the organic development of South East Asia’s offshore industry, regional governments are also looking to encourage development through investment. The Indonesian Ministry of Industry has prepared a road map for Indonesia’s shipbuilding industry development in 2012-2025. The industry is also expected to produce and repair all types of vessels from small to large. One aim, hoped to be achieved by 2020, is for the national shipbuilding industry cluster to be able to produce vessels with a capacity of 200,000 tons deadweight. The government will improve ship design and engineering capabilities through the development of the Center National Ship Design and Engineering (PDRKN). And all of this growth and development will comes as great news to those already established organisations in the Indonesian shipbuilding and offshore industry; organisations like PT AnggrekHitam. Founded in 2008, PT AnggrekHitam is based in Batam and is set up for a production output of maximum up to 25,000 tons of steel per year and its infrastructures have been calibrated and approved by GL for the construction of self-propelled Deck Carriers up to 25,000
BUILDING OIL & GAS PT AnggrekHitam Shipyard’s General Manager, Oscar Tambun ST (B Degree in Marine Engineering I.Eng, IMarEng,MIMarEST, MSNAME) recently spoke to Total World Energy and explained more about the company’s growth in the offshore sector, with two large orders set for completion in early third quarter of 2015, and how the business is always focussed on quality. “The ships we are currently working on are owned by Pertamina, the Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas company. They awarded us two contracts both for 17,500 dwt ships, 157m LOA. We are hoping to launch in May and deliver in August 2015. “We have finished most of the cargo tanks and much of the fittings are already in so we are about to come to the final stage for the block; final welding inspection,
airtests and tank coating. The fore and aft block and the engine room block will be joined and completed by the middle of March. “These vessels will be used by Pertamina for import or export of oil in and out of Indonesia and will not be used only in Indonesian waters,” he says. One thing that is for sure, when you use this yard for ship construction, you will receive quality service. Its engineers and employees have many years’ experience in the industry between them, and as many ship structures are similar, the small differences are easily implemented to meet the needs of the customer. “The shipyard itself is considerably new but the team that are building the tankers are extremely experienced from previous work that they completed before joining our yard. Building a ship is building a ship; nothing is too different, maybe the cargo pumps and a
tons deadweight and floating cranes. The Yard obtained ISO 9001:2008 in March 2014, certified by RINA, and reached two million man-hours without LTI by end of August 2014.
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couple of other details are different but the main structure is the same,” says Tambun. Demonstrating the yards versatility, in June a fertiliser vessel was completed and Tambun says that although this had similarities to oil carrying vessels, the cargo hatch and crane were different. “In terms of the tonnage, it’s quite similar, the steel weight is the same. The length of the ship was slightly shorter but the weight was the same and the engine room was similar with all similar systems. The difference is a fertiliser carrier has a crane and a different cargo hatch. You have to test the hatch and the crane but in principal the vessels are similar.”
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INDONESIAN SUCCESS
“The next target is to build small/ mini LNG tankers, up to 12,000m3”
To date, PT AnggrekHitam has enjoyed a strong demand for its services from local customers but in the future, the company will look to also market its services to international clients. “So far, all that we have completed has been for Indonesian customers but we are extending our product range, we have completed one of 63m AHTS for local operator in 2012 and trying to gain more work with offshore vessels like anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTSV) and we are currently entertaining a few more enquiries. “A lot of the local and South East Asia anchor handler and offshore
PT ANGGREKHITAM support vessel operators/organisations are approaching us, asking to use our facilities and wondering whether we can build for them. Decisions are not on our capabilities; it’s more to do with commercial issues; the price arrangement is the driver behind any decision,” says Tambun. One issue that has been facing the global offshore shipbuilding industry in the last few years is the rise of Chinese shipyards who provide an ever growing level of skill and extremely competitive prices. But this is not too much of a problem for AnggrekHitam. Tambun explains that there are still challenges when dealing with Chinese yards and Indonesian yards can definitely offer the quality offered by the Chinese for a similar price. “China has different kinds of shipyard. You can gain high-quality, European standard work or much lower, substandard work. Then there is the language barrier and the cultural differences which make negotiations more challenging. “Here, we can provide quality equally as high as the Singapore standard, sometimes higher. I’m sure that we can reach the level of quality offered by China for a similar price; before I joined this shipyard I built ships in China and Singapore and in terms of quality, the finishing was not always there. The price is good but you often have to add one or two million extra in order to make the ship work well. If you look at the total financial cost of the ship, you also have to look at the associated costs such as transportation. If you build your ship in China and
not cheap when you add in all the components. “Owners should not only consider the value of a ship’s contract; you need to consider where the operating area is, how you will train the crew and how much downtime you need to get the ship operating exactly to your requirements,” he says.
EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP Tambun’s ambitions for PT AnggrekHitam to move into the upper echelons of the Indonesian offshore shipbuilding market are admirable and his experiences and expertise stand
him, and the company, in great stead as growth is sought after. “I am a Marine Engineering graduate and started working in shipyards in 1996. I eventually became a project manager and worked in a few different shipyards and then I became the assistant project manager building the first DP3 Diving and Offshore Support Vessel in South East Asia in 2002. That ship, MV Azteca, is now working in Mexico. Then I moved to ABS as Newbuilding Surveyor followed by Riverside Marine in Australia before I moved to this shipyard eight months ago. During my service in Australia, the owners of the company asked
it is then operating in South East Asia, that’s probably another $400-800,000 extra depending of the size of the vessel for the seven-14 days steaming to get to your location. Sometimes things seem cheap but they’re
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me to build two ships for them and I completed these projects in Singapore and these were the two best tugs in Australia. There was no downtime, they went straight from the shipyard to the operational area in the North West Australia for Woodside Pluto LNG Terminal, Dampier. There was only two weeks implementation because we had gone through the OVID-OCIMF audit, AMSA audit and all the other audits; and once we trained the crew, the tugs worked in Harbour LNG
“A lot of the local and South East Asia anchor handler and offshore support vessel operators/ organisations are approaching us, asking to use our facilities and wondering whether we can build for them” Terminal without any major problems. We monitored those ships for quality and we looked at any defects. There were less than ten warranty defects, which is not major, and this is the sort of quality we are looking for in our yard here in Indonesia. “I have always thought ‘if I can build these ships in Singapore, why can I not build them in this yard as well?’ so hopefully my experience will bring a certain standard to this yard,” he says.
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PT ANGGREKHITAM And high standards and a quality focus go without saying for a man with Tambun’s experience. Quality standards will continue to be improved in Indonesia, and while the government continues to invest in the maritime and offshore industry, the country is also looking to build ties with the shipping industry in other countries, and Tambun hopes that this will bring much-needed repeat orders. “In Indonesia, the challenge is quality. We need to ensure close supervision and we need to understand what quality the customer needs. Once we set the value and have an understanding of what is required, we can then produce the right way and monitor correctly. It is also important to build a middle management with strong knowledge and to achieve this we need repeat orders. We will go through a learning curve on vessel one and I will then guarantee that vessel two will be one of the best ships around.” In the future, PT AnggrekHitam’s focus is definitely on the energy
business and the offshore market and, using its experience of building oil tankers, the company hopes to become the first shipyard in Indonesia to build a small LNG carrier. “We have not yet built a jackup but we are certainly looking to get into new markets,” enthuses Tambun. “The next target is to build small or mini LNG tankers, up to 12,000m3 with a type C tank. We are ready, we have materials suppliers in place, tank designers ready and now we just need to get the customers. Indonesia will be moving away from oil and towards gas in the next ten years so customers will be available. The challenge is that we will need ports to be built with liquefaction and regasification facilities. “This is a challenge for the government during the movement from oil to gas and when this begins I’m sure we will have many orders for our products. We would like to become the first yard in Indonesia or South East Asia to build small LNG tankers,” he concludes
PT Anggrek Hitam’s facilities include: • Four building berths • Large fabrication area • Integrated workshops • CNC Plasma cutting machine • Auto-blasting workshop • Shop priming workshop • Steel storage warehouse • Bending machine • 2 units of 100 Ton mobile cranes • 2 units of 70 Ton mobile cranes • 1 unit of 40 Ton mobile crane • 1 unit of 7 Ton lorry crane • 1 unit of 5 Ton wheel loader • 1 unit of 3 Ton wheel loader • 1 unit of 3 Ton forklift • 2 units of 3 ton over head cranes • 2 units of 10 Ton over head cranes • Stick Welding machines • Automatic welding machines • Automatic cutting machines • MIG welding machines • TIG welding machines • 2 units of flashing modules
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