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Engineering from Louisiana State

University, and an M.S. in Ocean

Engineering from the University of

New Hampshire.

Aker Yards to Build ROV

Support Vessel

Aker Yards has entered into a con- tract with GEO ASA for the building of an ROV Support Vessel. The value of the contract is approximately $61.6m. The vessel will be built by

Aker Yards in Brazil, with delivery scheduled for May 2008, and is of the design Aker ROV 06, designed by

Aker Yards Project. The vessel is 106 x 21 m, with accommodation for 100. It will be equipped with a 140 tons offshore crane, and will have DP

Class 2.

Acergy Expands ROV

Fleet

Acergy has purchased two Schilling ultra heavy-duty hydraulic ROVs.

These 150-shp, 3,000-m ROV sys- tems are based on Schilling's UHD

ROV. The new ROV systems are the product of a collaboration between the two companies to produce a new fleet vehicle for Acergy. The ROV systems have all the core UHD tech- nologies, but they also incorporate features to enhance operational effi- ciency by allowing simple and flexible configuration for mission-specific tasks. Both ROV systems will include

Schilling's XE TMS. The TMS can load up to 825 m of 35-mm tether.

The new Acergy ROV systems will be installed aboard the Polar Queen, which has been recently chartered by

Acergy for deepwater flexible pipelay and subsea construction tasks world- wide. The ROVs will support this work in depths up to 2000 m. Both systems will be delivered in

November 2006.

Technip Awarded Pipeline

Contract

Technip won a contract by BG

Trinidad and Tobago for the flow- lines, risers, and umbilicals for the

North Coast Marine Area (NCMA)

Development, offshore Trinidad. The contract includes engineering, pro- curement, fabrication, installation, and pre-commissioning of the insu- lated riser, flowline and umbilical sys- tems that will connect the Eastern

Hibiscus and the Chaconia subsea wells to the Hibiscus Platform. The location is twenty-five miles north- west of Trinidad in NCMA Block 01 (East Hibiscus and Chaconia reser- voirs) in 500 ft. of water.

The work also includes engineering, fabrication and installation of two insulated steel flowlines with two flexible risers as well as the engineer- ing, supply, installation, and pre- commissioning of two hydraulic con- trol umbilicals. The detailed design engineering will be performed by

Technip's operations and engineering center in Houston.

The high-pressure flexible risers will be manufactured by Flexi France, one of the Group's flexible pipe plants, located in Le Trait (France) while the hydraulic control umbilicals will be manufactured by Technip's UK sub- sidiary, Duco, based in Newcastle. 50 MTR May 2006 people & companies

IXSEA Announces ROPOS Deal

IXSEA announced the signing of a deal with the Canadian

Scientific Submersible Facility (CSSF) for a Global Acoustic

Positioning System (GAPS), a number of transponders along with spare parts. GAPS is a calibration-free acoustic positioning system which combines inertial and acoustic technologies. The CSSF, based in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, is a nationally regis- tered not-for-profit corporation. Established to manage and oper- ate the Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science (ROPOS) system once the Department of Fisheries and Oceans could no longer fund underwater research vehicles, the CSSF successfully transferred the ROPOS Remotely Operated Vehicle operation from government to the private sector.

The ROPOS Remotely Operated Vehicle is equipped with the IXSEA Global Acoustic

Positioning System (GAPS).

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