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Kongsberg Wins Navy

Mine Hunting Contract

Kongsberg Maritime AS and

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS signed a contract for the new Finnish

Navy Mine Hunting Vessel program.

The contract has a value of $19.1m and includes HUGIN 1000 MR, EM 710 and HiPAP 500, three of each.

KDA acts as an integrator of all hydroacoustic products into the tacti- cal system (C2) delivered by Atlas

Electronics, Germany. Intermarine,

Italy is the shipbuilder and the prime contractor. The first ship is planned to be delivered to the FN in 2010.

EBDG Conracts with

ONGC

The Oil and Natural Gas

Corporation of India has contracted with Elliott Bay Design Group to provide consultancy for the design, construction and delivery of a 360 x 62 x 30.3 ft. (110 x 19 x 9.3 m) well stimulation vessel. The function of the vessel is to provide well stimula- tion services in open ocean environ- ments, primarily in the Arabian Sea offshore India. The overriding requirement is for a ship which can perform advanced offshore well stim- ulation operations while under redundant Dynamic Positioning (DP

Class 2) functions within internation- al regulations, International

Association of Classification Society,

Indian Registry of Shipping and

Directorate of General Shipping cer- tification. The vessel is to be equipped for high pressure pumping operations and storage facilities with various blends of chemicals including sand, flow back facility and burner boom, and will feature a helicopter deck and three cranes.

EBDG has completed the concept design and currently is preparing the preliminary design. Contract design completion is scheduled for late

Summer 2007.

Schwarzenegger

Announces Appointments

Susan Golding, 61, of San Diego, has been appointed to the Ocean

Protection Council. Since 2001, she has served as president and chief exec- utive officer for the Golding Group

Incorporated. Golding previously served two terms as both mayor of

San Diego from 1992 to 2000 and on the San Diego County Board of

Supervisors from 1984 to 1992. Prior to that, she served as deputy secretary for the Business, Transportation and

Housing Agency from 1983 to 1984.

Golding is chair of the Marine Lands

Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task

Force. This position does not require

Senate confirmation and the compen- sation is $100 per diem. Golding is a

Republican.

Teledyne Acquires Tindall

Technologies

Teledyne Technologies

Incorporated said that its subsidiary,

Teledyne Cougar, Inc., has completed the acquisition of Tindall

Technologies, Inc., a designer and supplier of microwave subsystems for defense applications. Terms of the

EdgeTech Side Scan Sonar installed on ROTV

An EdgeTech 4200 Series Side Scan Sonar

System installed on two MacArtney Focus-2

ROTVs owned and operated by Noordhoek

Survey has just completed its first project; a pipeline inspection in the North Sea. The

Focus-2 vehicles were used to inspect roughly 600 km of pipeline and utilized EdgeTech's 4200 Series Side Scan System with high fre- quency 300/600 kHz arrays. Aboard the vessel during the pipeline inspection campaign, the onboard geophysicist Professor Jean Lanckneus commented, "The side scan data acquired was of outstanding quality. The stability and maneuverability of the ROTV combined with the noiseless environment provides the obvi- ous choice for all future side scan operations".

Additionally, representatives at Noordhoek had the following to say: "The data recorded was quite simply excellent, proven by the sample below. The pipeline entering the protective structure is seen quite clearly and even the gaps between the mattresses covering the pipeline on the port channel are displayed." EdgeTech can provide systems for most ROTVs as well as engi- neered to order systems for custom marine applications where gathering of sonar data is required.

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