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Oceaneering Awarded

Major Hess ROV Contract

Oceaneering International Ser- vices, Ltd., of Houston, Texas, was recently awarded a contract by

Amerada Hess, Ltd., to provide re- motely operated vehicle (ROV) sup- port services for all of their rigs operating in the North Sea.

Oceaneering has operated its cost- effective and reliable HYDRAR work system for ROVs aboard Hess rigs for several years, with systems cur- rently operating on the High Seas

Driller and Glomar Arctic 1.

In addition to remaining on these two rigs, the new contract calls for installation of a further system on the Sedco 707 in the near future.

Under the terms of the contract,

Oceaneering has agreed to provide up to two additional vehicles to met future similar requirements that

Amerada Hess Limited expects to have over the next 12 months.

For free literature about the ser- vices available from Oceaneering

International, Inc.,

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Sembawang Wins Repair

Contract For U.S. Destroyer

The contract to carry out repairs to the U.S.S. Ingersoll, damaged in a collision with a Singapore-regis- tered tanker on June 20th, has been awarded to Sembawang Shipyard,

Singapore.

It was reported that plans to bring the ship back to the U.S. for repairs had received some consideration, but had evidently been ruled out.

The U.S.S. Ingersoll, a Spruance- class destroyer, received a 100-foot gash along its starboard bow and suffered some flooding after collid- ing in the Straits of Malacca with the Matsumi Maru #7. The tanker continued to the Malaysian port of

Penang under its own power after reportedly leaving its anchor em- bedded in the destroyer's side.

The U.S.S. Ingersoll, homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was origi- nally on its way to Singapore after having served a tour of duty in the

Persian Gulf. Navy officials will be arriving in Singapore to begin an investigation into the accident.

A member of Sembawang Group,

Sembawang Shipyard will carry out extensive repairs above and below the U.S.S. Ingersoll's waterline, in- cluding: repairs to the steel hull, deck plating, internal bulkheads and web frames. New piping, cable and insulation will also have to be in- stalled.

Vietnam Approves

Continued Foreign Drilling

According to an official of the state oil company, Petrovietnam, the government of Vietnam has agreed to let British Gas, of the

U.K., Japan's Mitsubishi Corpora- tion and the Astra Group of Indone- sia explore four additional oil blocks off the country's southern coast.

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These agreements mean that

Vietnam has allocated nine of the 10 blocks, located southeast of the town of Vung Tau, offered to foreign bid- ders on a production-sharing basis with Petrovietnam last year. Bid- ding on the remaining oil block is currently underway.

The agreements must still be for- malized in production-sharing con- tracts, a process which in the past has taken between five to six months from the date of the initial accord.

Bill Proposes Establishing

U.S. Ship-Tracking System

Representative Robert G.

Torricelli (D-N.J.) recently intro- duced a bill to Congress that would require ship operators to use sophis- ticated traffic-control equipment, such as global positioning satellite systems, to track ship movements. "At a minimum, technology should be in place that would iden- tify the precise location of any given vessel in a port," said Rep.

Torricelli.

According to the Congressman, the technology already exists to es- tablish a vessel-tracking system "that is as accurate as the United

States air traffic-control system and that is the goal of this legislation."

The proposed bill would require ships to use navigation equipment that meets or exceeds the accuracy of global-positioning systems.

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