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Singmarine Wins Contract

To Build $29.5 Million

Combination Carrier

Singapore-based Singmarine

Industries Limited (Singmarine), through its shipbuilding and repair division Singmarine Dockyard &

Engineering Pte. Ltd., has won a contract worth about S$52 million ($29.4 million) to design and build a highly specialized combination car- rier for molten sulfur/petroleum products for Abu Dhabi National

Tanker Company of the United Arab

Emirates (UAE).

The 8,850-dwt combination sul- fur/petroleum products carrier, measuring 127 meters (about 417 feet) will be one of 15 such carriers in the world. She will be deployed to transport molten sulfur from Das

Island to Ruwais, where the molten sulfur will be converted into dry sulfur for export.

The combination carrier will be built to strict requirements and rules of Lloyd's Register of Shipping, as well as in accordance with the rules and regulations of the United Arab

Emirates.

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Propelled by single-screw, heavy oil diesel engines, the carrier has three independent self-supporting cargo tanks, each equipped with two deep-well pumps for the transfer of molten sulfur at a temperature of +135 degrees C. The cargo tanks for molten sulfur has a total capacity of 4,725 cubic meters, while the cargo tanks for petroleum products can take up to 3,682 cubic meters.

Some of the major newbuildings currently being built by Singmarine

Dockyard include the 9,300-dwt sophisticated chemical tanker for

Mediterranea Di Navigazione, the world's largest well stimulation vessel for Western Petroleum Serv- ices International, and a 120-TEU roll-on/roll-off container vessel for

ANL Limited. Another vessel, a 5,000-dwt clean product tanker, was recently delivered ahead of sched- ule to Thai Oil Company.

Secretary Watkins Warns,

Develop Alaskan Refuge

Oil Now Or Risk Loss

Energy Secretary James Wat- kins said recently that unless en- ergy exploration is allowed soon on

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife

Refuge, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline could be shut down early, and more than a billion barrels of crude oil could be lost.

At a Senate Energy and Natural resources Committee hearing, the

Secretary unveiled a report titled "Alaskan Oil and Gas: Energy

Wealth or Vanishing Opportunity."

The report warned that if no new large-scale oil fields are developed on Alaska's North Slope, the 800- mile pipeline will likely shut down in the year 2009, when declining output from Prudhoe Bay is expected to drop the flow of oil in the pipeline to below its minimum throughput rate.

Mr. Watkins said not only do we risk losing possible new reserves larger than any onshore field dis- covered in the U.S. since the 1940s, but the possibility exists that we could abandon as much as 1 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil that would be left in known fields when the pipeline is taken out of service.

Citing a 12-year turnaround time from lease sale to production, the

Secretary said authority for leasing a portion of the wildlife refuge must be granted before 1997.

Maritrans Elects

Dorman Director

Craig E. Dorman was recently elected a director of Maritrans GP

Inc., the managing general partner of Maritrans Partners L.P. Stephen

A. Van Dyck, chairman and chief executive officer, made the an- nouncement following Dr. Dor- man's election as a new director by the board of directors.

Maritrans Partners L.P. is a master limited partnership formed in 1987 to purchase and operate, through Maritrans Operating Part- ners L.P., a fleet of tugboats and oceangoing tank barges along the

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