The company has an extensive client base, including several national oil companies as well as international corporations such as Agip/Eni, Total, Marathon Oil, Veba and Verenex Energy. Challenger works as a regular subcontractor to the state-owned National Oil Corporation of Libya. Challenger is one of the oldest drilling companies in Africa, and particularly in Libya. Since inception, the company has grown every year producing impressive financial results. Challenger is a private company limited by shares registered in the General Registry of the Isle of Man, G.B. It operates as a commercial entity through a network of branches in Liechtenstein, the Middle East and Africa.[2] Financial Consultants and audit firms include KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Products and Services
A workover rig.
Challenger - 14 OIME SL-7
Challenger - 19 National 80-B Trailerized
Challenger - 23 IRI- CABOT-900-Truck Mounted
Kenworth Trucks - (953-50 Ton, C500-35 Ton and Foremost Delta-3)
Trucks & Trailers - (Mercedes, Nissan Patrol, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Pickup and MAN)
In 2006, Venture Capital Bank (VC Bank), a Bahrain-based investment bank, along with its partner, the U.S. private equity firm Global Emerging Markets (GEM), acquired a significant stake in Challenger. The acquisition cost roughly $50 million and was co-financed by VC Bank and GEM. This transaction demonstrated that the MENA region contains several attractive, yet obscured, investment opportunities represented in privately held companies such as Challenger.[3]
The investment is beneficial to both parties, allowing Challenger to achieve its growth plan and helping VC Bank to achieve its objectives of supporting companies in the MENA region. Challenger Chairman Hassan Tatanaki said that "amongst alternative financing routes available, Challenger's management decided to partner with VC Bank and GEM to fuel and expedite its capacity expansion plans and its geographical coverage." Tatanaki added that "in the oil sector, with Libya in particular, oil production in the 1970s was more than 3 million bpd compared to today's levels of 1.6 million bpd. With proven oil reserves of 41.5Gbbl (6.60×109m3) of mainly sweet light crude oil in January 2007, an aggressive plan has been introduced by the Libyan government to enhance production capabilities to 3 million bpd by 2010. Since the lifting of sanctions, exploration concessions have been granted to international exploration companies, which hope to drill 50 exploration wells per year."
VC Bank CEO Abdullatif Mohammed Janahi added, “our investment in Challenger will help the company snatch the exceptional growth potential in Libya and enter international markets. Soaring oil prices have brought about a supply/demand imbalance of oil rigs worldwide, leading oil and gas companies to spend more on exploration and production. This has, in turn, increased demand for oil drilling contractors such as Challenger.”
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