Keppel Corporation’s Unit Awarded Seabed Exploration Contract
Ocean Mineral Singapore (OMS), majority owned by Keppel Corporation, has entered into a 15-year exploration contract for polymetallic nodules.
Sponsored by the Singapore government and supported by the Keppel-NUS Corporate Laboratory, OMS will be conducting environmental studies and surveys for deposits of polymetallic nodules within the approved area of 58,000 square kilometres at a site within the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone of the Pacific Ocean.
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