Samsung Wins FPSO Order

Samsung has been granted orders worth a combined $250 million from Nigeria and Australia. The company said it will construct a floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel valued at $90 million for the Nigerian arm of Shell Petroleum Co., as well as an FPSO for the Australian unit of Phillips Petroleum worth $160 million. The new orders allow Samsung to reach its full-year sales target of $2.2 billion. The company sold $2.04 billion worth of vessels in 1998.