Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited, Hong Kong, one of the largest service providers of marine bunkering in China, announced that the group entered into shipbuilding contracts to acquire five units of 318,000 DWT class crude oil carriers.

Samsung Heavy Industries has won the contract to supply five 100,000t-class shuttle tankers to Viken Shipping, a Norway-based firm. The oil tankers are to transport the crude oil produced at an FPSO to an inland base. The special ships are equipped…