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72 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News lift pumps. The vessel will be redeliv- ered at the end of 2005 where it will be integrated with the processing facilities by Vetco Aibel, before deployment in the Alvheim field in the North Sea where the company expects to begin production during the first quarter of 2007. The partners of the Alvheim field are Marathon, ConocoPhillips AS and

Lundin Norway AS.

PPL Shipyard Gets $121m Rig Option

PPL Shipyard, a subsidiary of

SembCorp Marine, signed a rig building contract worth $121 million with

Wilsuperior Ltd, a subsidiary of Awilco

Offshore ASA (AWIL) for the construc- tion of a Baker Marine

Pacific Class 375 Deep Drilling

Offshore Jack Up Rig. The contract is an option that PPL Shipyard granted to

Awilco Offshore ASA in May 2004 and which the later has now decided to exer- cise. The contract takes effect in June 2005. Construction of the jack-up rig is expected to commence in third quarter of 2005 with delivery scheduled in the second quarter of 2007.

The Baker Marine Pacific Class (BMC

Pacific) 375 Deep Drilling Offshore

Jack-Up Rig is a proprietary designed developed and owned by Baker Marine

Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of

PPL Shipyard. The jack-up rig, to be named Wilsuperior, will be equipped with a drilling package that will enable it to drill high pressure and high temper- ature wells at 30,000 ft. whil operating in 375 ft. of water. It has accommoda- tion for 120.

TRITON Software for

High Speed Operations

Triton Imaging, Inc. said the

Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) will use Triton Isis Sonar and Triton SS-

Office software to perform acquisition and processing of data from their new

Edgetech 4300-MPX multi-ping sonars.

The software, purchased through

Triton's agent in the Benelux

HydroConsult, will be used onboard

RWS survey vessels such as Arca and

Zirfaea in search of objects, pipelines, sub-sea cables, wrecks, sand ripples, and for sub-bottom profiling.

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ABS to Class "Tahiti"

Truss Spar

ABS will class the ChevronTexaco

Tahiti truss spar, destined for deepwater

Gulf of Mexico. Targeted for 4,200 ft. of water, Tahiti demonstrates the industry's latest innovations-including the first spar with no drilling capability, no sur- face wellheads-and is among the first spar projects to utilize ABS' industry- first guide for building and classing these specialized deepwater floating production units, says Dick Vukin, ABS project manager. ABS reissued its "Guide for Building and Classing

Floating Production Installations" (FPI) in April 2004 to include specific guid- ance for spars and tension leg platforms (TLPs). ABS will class the Tahiti unit as an A1 Floating Offshore Installation (FOI). FOIs include spars, semisub- mersibles and TLPs, in addition to ship- type process and storage facilities.

Classification will cover the "Tahiti" unit's hull, mooring systems, topsides, power generation, platform layout and all marine, utility and safety systems, including life-saving equipment and fire-fighting appliances.

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