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Alstom Awarded Contract For Positioning System The Marine and Offshore Division of Alstom Drives & Controls has been granted a contract from Tidewater Marine for its duplex dynamic position-ing system ? DPS902 ? for use onboard an ROV support vessel, which demands maintenance of a highly accu-rate position. DPS902 was selected for the newbuild ROV because of its dual redundancy for high reliability and the flexibility of the channels available for position measurement device input. Tesoro Enters Agreement Tesoro Petroleum Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its domestic Exploration & Production (E&P) business to EEX Corp. at a sales price of $216 million. The transaction, which will occur on November 30 under the terms of the agreement, will be structured as a stock purchase. The sales price will be adjusted for transaction costs and certain price adjustments for business activity that occurs between July 1, 1999 and closing. Conoco Extends FPSO Contract With Oceaneering Conoco Indonesia has extended the charter of FPSO San Jacinto for an addi-tional year at the Sembiland field, Block B, Indonesia. The vessel has been at Sembiland since 1994 with the contract extension allowing it to remain until October 2000. The FPSO was recently drydocked for steel and process plant repairs and has since returned to the field. The 12,450-dwt FPSO with pro-duction capacity of 11,000-bpd and storage for 53,000 bbl is owned by Oceaneering and operated by Conoco. NovAtel Receives MSAS Order NovAtel was granted orders to supply another 13 reference receivers to the MTSAT Satellite-based Augmentation System (MSAS) in Japan. With the order estimated at more than $1 million, these receivers are scheduled for deliv-ery during Q3 1999. NovAtel had previ-ously supplied receivers to the MSAS program in 1998. Superior Fabricators Awarded Cantilever Extensions Superior Fabricators of Baldwin, La., November, 1999 has been awarded cantilever extensions for two Global Marine Jackup rigs, which are currently under tow into the Gulf of Mexico from West Africa. The extensions will provide for an additional 15 ft. of cantilever reach for Glomar Adriatic IX and Glomar Adriat-ic X, both of which are LeTourneau 116-C class rigs. Hale Hamilton Secures Surface Ship Orders U.K. valve specialists Hale Hamilton have attained the first surface ship orders for their latest New Generation Reducing Stations (NGRS), which con-trol key pressurized systems onboard. About $827,000 worth of business has been secured following contracts to pro-vide ship sets for the Royal Netherlands Navy's four De Zeven Provincien Class Air Defence and Command Frigates (ADCF), which are currently under con-struction at the Royal Schelde shipyard in Rushing. 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