SapuraClough Offshore has exercised an option to purchase the 7,229-dwt Normand Clough (built 2008), a vessel it has long-term chartered for the past five years.

Solstad said the terms of the transaction are confidential though it revealed it had been completed at book value.

It will have a positive cash effect of NOK 200m ($33.6m) during the fourth quarter when the sale is finalised.

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