The latest deal, announced Thursday morning, is worth $333m and lifts the company’s orderbook backlog to $1.8bn.

The contract in India is the second awarded to Swiber by the same national oil company in just over a month.

The project, to commence immediately, involves transportation and installation of submarine pipelines and engineering works and modification of existing facilities.

The first phase is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2016 and phase two, the second quarter of 2017.

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