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-mmimmmti lion order to build four oil tankers for four Indonesian firms, includ- ing Silverstone Development Inc.

The tankers, including two 35,000- dwt vessels, will be built by

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and Halla

Heavy Industries Co. The vessels are to be chartered for 10 years by

Pertamina, Indonesia's state-run oil company.

Letter Of Intent Signed For

Four Ecoships

Siowalls AB, Volvo Penta Corp.,

Industrial Development Corp. and

Baltiyskiy Zavod have signed a let- ter of intent regarding cooperation on and construction of four

Ecoships.

The consortium has indicated the possibility of reaching a contract agreement in the beginning of

October and starting the work before year's end.

Two More VLCCs For Golden

Ocean

Hitachi Zosen has reached unoffi- cial agreement with the Golden

Ocean Group to build two VLCCs.

Hitachi Zosen reported that the two tankers are to be built at the firm's Ariake shipyard in

Kumamoto Prefecture.

It brings to 14 the number of

VLCC contracts Hitachi Zosen has won from Golden Ocean. Hitachi

Zosen now has 10 VLCCs on its order books, and its docks are fully booked through mid-2000.

Final Pieces Of FPSO

Contract Put Together

Woodside Petroleum has award- ed the two remaining major engi- neering and construction contracts for the $747-million Laminaria and Corallina offshore oil field pro- jects.

A contract worth nearly $45 mil- lion was awarded to Coflexip Stena

Offshore Asia Pacific to supply flexible flowlines and risers for the project. United Construction

Group was awarded a $33.6 mil- lion contract to manufacture pre- assembled units for the project.

Both contracts are to provide parts to the project's 895.65-ft. (273-m) long floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, the largest in the world currently under construction.

The FPSO will displace 220,000 tons and be capable of producing up to 170,000 barrels of crude oil daily.

Initial production will be around 140,000 bpd upon commencement of the project in early 1999.

Northrop Grumman Wins $9.1 Million Contract

Northrop Grumman Corp.'s

Antisubmarine Warfare and Ship

Systems business unit has recently been awarded a $9.1 million con- tract by the U.S. Naval Sea

Systems Command (NAVSEA) to begin the first low-rate initial pro- duction of two AN/SPQ-9B radar ordnance alteration kits.

The kits will provide a complete technological update of the SPQ- 9A radar, which was originally manufactured for the Navy in the 1960s.

The work is expected to be com- pleted by February 1999.

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