The shipbuilder will construct nine anchor handlers for the oil company’s subsidiary ESNAAD.

No price has been revealed for the newbuildings, which will be of Sinopacific’s own SPA80A design.

The owner will take delivery of the anchor handlers in 2017.

Dagher Al Marar, CEO of ESNAAD, and Liang put pen to paper on the deal which completes a project started in 2013.