Smit Salvage has been awarded the contract to salvage the wreck of a deepwater pipe-layer which capsized over the weekend.

The 147-metre Star Centurion (built 2002) was involved in a collision with Pertamina’s 40,000-dwt Antea (built 200) off the Indonesian island of Bintan.

The Star Centurion is described as lying on its side on a sandbank in a near submerged condition.