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Kvaerner Gets Two

Cruise Deals

Kvaerner signed a deal with Costa

Crociere to construct a 86,000-grt cruise ship. The vessel will accommodate 2,100 passengers and will cost more than $500 million to build.

The ship will be built in Helsinki to be delivered in 2003. Kvaerner said it will arrange third party financing to cover the major proportion of costs associated with construction.

Kvaerner To Build Cruise Ship For

Carnival

Kvaerner ASA also reported that it had won a contract worth almost 3.3 billion

Norwegian crowns ($366.5 million) to build a cruise ship for Carnival Corp.

The vessel, to be built at Kvaerner's

Masa-Yards shipyard in Finland, will be 86,000-grt, due for delivery at the end of 2003.

Following the contracts, Kvaerner said the current order book at its Masa-Yards shipyard in Finland now stands at $3 bil- lion.

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FirstWave/Newpark

Awarded Contracts

FirstWave/Newpark Shipbuilding was granted two contracts from Marine

Drilling Company. The Marine Rig 202 arrived from Singapore on June 26 for skirt repairs and replacement to the rig mat. The Marine Rig 201 — also from

Singapore arrived at Newpark's East

Pelican Island Facility June 28 for minor repairs and loadout.

The company was also awarded a con- tract from Parker Drilling Offshore Cor- poration for steel and piping repairs to the Parker 25 J, which arrived at First-

Wave's East Pelican Island facility on

June 23.

Bollinger To Construct

Double Hull

Bollinger Marine Fabricators, Amelia,

La. has signed a contract to construct a pair of 250-ft. (76.2 m), double hull, jumbo coastwise service, single rake hopper barges for Tide Leasing of Birm- ingham, Ala. With construction already having begun on the first barge, the building of the second vessel will begin in August. Both are scheduled for a

November 2000 delivery.

With a depth of 14 ft. (4.2 m) each, 52.5 ft. (16 m) beam and 11.5 ft. (3.5 m) maximum draft, the vessels will be built with ,75-in. steel at the hopper bottoms and .625-in. steel at the hopper sides plus ,50-in. T-l liner plates on the bot- tom and upper sides of the hopper.

Operating out of Santa Marta, Colum- bia, each barge will be able to transport up to 3,000 metric tons of coal.

Metairie, La.-based Shearer and Asso- ciates designed the new barges for the transportation of coal in limited offshore service. Classed by Lloyd's Register of

Shipping, the barges will have a Lloyd's load line.

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BP Amoco Orders Two LNG

Carriers From SHI

BP Amoco ordered two liquified nat- ural gas (LNG) ships, with options to purchase three more, from Samsung

Heavy Industries Co for in excess of $300 million.

The oil giant, which is the world's sec- ond largest non-state producer of natur- al gas, said construction will start in

April 2001 with delivery of the first ship in the fourth quarter of 2002 and the second in the first quarter of 2003.

Company officials said that the orders formed part of the group's wider gas and power strategy including the recent deal to supply LNG to the Dominican

Republic. The ships will have a capaci- ty of 136,000 cubic metres at 98.5 per- cent full.

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