Will O&M sector's long winter end in 2020?

SINGAPORE's sizeable offshore and marine (O&M) sector may not have lived up to the much-hyped recovery that many investors had expected this year following a prolonged slowdown since the oil slump in 2014 but its two major players - Keppel Corp and Sembcorp Marine - did pull their weight in unexpected ways.

There is always next year. So far the signs are good, with the latest news of production curbs by the Organization of the Petroleum Expo…