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词条 Challenger LTD
释义

  1. History

  2. Operations

     Products and Services 

  3. VC Bank Acquisition

     Challenger Limited: Selected Clients 

  4. See also

  5. Notes

  6. General references

  7. External links

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| name = Challenger Limited
| logo =
| type = Private
| foundation = 1991
| location = Heliopolis Cairo, Egypt
| key_people = Hassan Tatanaki (Chairman)
Mohamed Darwish (Operations)
Hatem Fakhr (Finance)
| industry = Energy & Environment
| products = Drilling
Petroleum
| revenue =
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| num_employees = Over 1000
| homepage = challenger.com
}}

Challenger Ltd is a provider of contract oil and gas land drilling and workover services.

History

Challenger is based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and is currently led by Chairman Hassan Tatanaki.[1]

The company was founded in 1991 and operated first in Africa later expanding into the Middle East.

Operations

Challenger Limited is a provider of contract oil and gas land well drilling and work over services. The company owns and operates 25 drilling rigs in Libya providing drilling and work-over services for oil, gas, and water wells, with offices in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Workover refers to any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline, coiled tubing or snubbing. More specifically though, it will refer to the expensive process of pulling and replacing a Completion (oil well).

It has an extensive client base, including several national oil companies as well as international corporations such as Agip/Eni, Total, Marathon Oil, Veba and Verenex Energy. Challenger works as a regular subcontractor to the state-owned National Oil Corporation of Libya. Challenger is one of the oldest drilling companies in Africa, and particularly in Libya. Since inception, the company has grown every year producing impressive financial results. Challenger is a private company limited by shares registered in the General Registry of the Isle of Man, G.B. It operates as a commercial entity through a network of branches in Liechtenstein, the Middle East and Africa.[2] Financial Consultants and audit firms include KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Products and Services

  • Challenger - 14 OIME SL-7
  • Challenger - 19 National 80-B Trailerized
  • Challenger - 23 IRI- CABOT-900-Truck Mounted
  • Kenworth Trucks - (953-50 Ton, C500-35 Ton and Foremost Delta-3)
  • Trucks & Trailers - (Mercedes, Nissan Patrol, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Pickup and MAN)
  • Oshkosh Trucks
  • Loaders - (Caterpillar & Volvo)
  • Excavators - (Caterpillar -D7)

VC Bank Acquisition

In 2006, Venture Capital Bank (VC Bank), a Bahrain-based investment bank, along with its partner, the U.S. private equity firm Global Emerging Markets (GEM), acquired a significant stake in Challenger. The acquisition cost roughly $50 million and was co-financed by VC Bank and GEM. This transaction demonstrated that the MENA region contains several attractive, yet obscured, investment opportunities represented in privately held companies such as Challenger.[3]

The investment is beneficial to both parties, allowing Challenger to achieve its growth plan and helping VC Bank to achieve its objectives of supporting companies in the MENA region. Challenger Chairman Hassan Tatanaki said that "amongst alternative financing routes available, Challenger's management decided to partner with VC Bank and GEM to fuel and expedite its capacity expansion plans and its geographical coverage." Tatanaki added that "in the oil sector, with Libya in particular, oil production in the 1970s was more than 3 million bpd compared to today's levels of 1.6 million bpd. With proven oil reserves of {{convert|41.5|Goilbbl|m3|abbr=on}} of mainly sweet light crude oil in January 2007, an aggressive plan has been introduced by the Libyan government to enhance production capabilities to 3 million bpd by 2010. Since the lifting of sanctions, exploration concessions have been granted to international exploration companies, which hope to drill 50 exploration wells per year."

VC Bank CEO Abdullatif Mohammed Janahi added, “our investment in Challenger will help the company snatch the exceptional growth potential in Libya and enter international markets. Soaring oil prices have brought about a supply/demand imbalance of oil rigs worldwide, leading oil and gas companies to spend more on exploration and production. This has, in turn, increased demand for oil drilling contractors such as Challenger.”

Challenger Limited: Selected Clients

Client Years of Operation Area of Operation Country Services
{{flagicon|Libya}}Agoco 1991-current Sarir field Libya}} Drilling, workover
{{flagicon|UK}}Lasmo 1993-94 Wadi Borjuj Libya}} Drilling, workover
{{flagicon|Libya}}Waha 1994 El Zahra Libya}} Drilling, workover
{{flagicon|Ireland}}IPC-Dublin 1997-97 Kilwa Tanzania}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Austria}}OMV 1997 Field 103 Libya}} Drilling, workover
{{flagicon|Belgium}}Fina 1997 El Hamada Libya}} Drilling, workover
{{flagicon|US}}Marathon 1998 Manzala field Egypt}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Spain}}Khalda/Repsol 1998-99 West DesertEgypt}} Drilling
{{flagicon|US}}Total 1999-current El Mabrouk Libya}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Italy}}Agiba-Agip 1999 West Desert Egypt}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Sweden}}IPLL 1999-current El Naka field Libya}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Libya}}SOC 2000-current SOC fields Libya}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Germany}}Veba 2000 Different fields Libya}} Drilling, workover
{{flagicon|UK}}Perenco Oil Co. 2000-01 EchiraX Concession Gabon}} Drilling
{{flagicon|Libya}}Zueitina 2001-current Field 103 Libya}} Drilling, work over
Notes:

1. USGS 2002 (Bbbl = "billion barrels of oil").

See also

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  • Energy in Egypt
  • List of oilfield service companies

Notes

1. ^Gulf Financiers Seek to Invest in Libya, Africa Intelligence
2. ^Silicon Valley-San Jose Business Journal: Challenger profile
3. ^VC Bank Acquires Stake in Challenger, VC Bank, Nov. 21, 2006

General references

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  • Venture Capital Bank (2006) VC Bank Acquires Stake in Challenger
  • Energy Information Administration (2007) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926162829/http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Libya/pdf.pdf Libya: Country Analysis]
  • World Bank (2006), Libyan Economic Report, Social & Economic Development Group
  • P. Mobbs (2002) Mineral Industry of Libya
  • Thomas S. Ahlbrandt (2001) Sirte Basin Province: Sirte-Zelten Total Petroleum System U.S. Geological Survey
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930150643/http://www.tuaregcapital.com/page24.htm Tuareg Capital - News: Gulf Financiers in Libya] Tuareg Capital
  • Challenger Company Profile Silicon Valley-San Jose Business Journal
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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929151400/http://www.challengerlimited.com/ Challenger Limited Website]
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