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Marine Drilling Signs

Three-Year Contract

Marine Drilling has signed a three-year contract with Esso

Exploration Inc., an affiliate of

Exxon Corp., which will generate day rate revenues of about $207 million during its primary term for the Marine 700 drilling rig.

Marine Drilling is scheduled to begin operations in the first quar- ter of 1999. Final construction of the Marine 700, a deepwater semi- submersible drilling rig, will be at

HAM Shipyard in Pascagoula,

Miss. The unit will be initially equipped to work in water depths up to 5,000 ft., readily upgradeable to 7,500 ft. Marine 700 will be available to Exxon affiliates for work worldwide, outside the North

Sea.

Rowan Signs Charter

Agreement With Sea Mar

Rowan Companies Inc. signed

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Circle 306 on Reader Service Card term charter agreements with Sea

Mar Management Inc. and Edison

Chouest Offshore for the exclusive use of five offshore supply vessels.

The charters range from one to five years starting in the first quarter of this year, and new ves- sel deliveries scheduled between the second quarter of 1998 and the first quarter of 1999.

Venezuelan Frigates

Come To Ingalls

For $315M

Modernization Project

Two Italian built 2,500-ton

LUPO class frigates of the

Venezuelan Armada have been sent to Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Litton Industries, for a $315 million modernization project. Mariscal Sucre (F-21) and Almirante Brion (F-22) — both designed for anti-air, anti- surface and anti-submarine warfare missions in 1980 and 1982 — left Caracas in convoy with the T-62 transport ship Arv

Esequibo. The T-62 accompa- nied the frigates in order to return their crews of nearly 300 back to Caracas after turning the vessels over to Ingalls

Shipbuilding in Pascagoula,

Miss.

The scheduled work will include repairs to the ship's hulls, replacement of their diesel engines, upgrading gas turbine engines, replacement of the ship's electrical generating propulsion plants and machin- ery control systems, as well as upgrades of shipboard command and control systems in the ships'

Combat Information Centers (CIC). In addition, all weapons' systems will be overhauled.

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