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Canada To Build $8.3 Million Loran Station

In Newfoundland

The Canadian government re- cently announced its plans to con- struct an $8.3 million Loran-C sta- tion at Comfort Cove, Newfound- land.

The new station will be operated as part of the "Labrador Sea Chain" and will provide an important navi- gational safety service to vessels on the east coast into the 21st century.

The Loran station will consist of a 721.8-foot transmitting antenna and a 2,152.8-square foot operations building housing a diesel generator power plant, timing and control equipment and the Loran-C trans- mitter.

The two year project will begin this fall and is scheduled for comple- tion in 1994. In conjunction with the new Comfort Cove station, the

Cape Race Loran-C station is cur- rently undergoing upgrading work.

Bids Requested For

Construction Of Hilton's 'Queen Of New Orleans'

Hilton Hotels Corporation and

New Orleans Paddlewheels, Inc., recently solicited bids for the con- struction of Hilton's Queen Of New

Orleans. The vessel will reportedly be the city of New Orleans' first riverboat casino.

All six of the Louisiana-based shipyards that were originally con- tacted expressed interest in bidding on the project. The bidders are:

Avondale Industries, Inc., New Or- leans; Leevac Shipyards, Inc.,

Jennings; Bender Shipbuilding,

New Orleans; McDermott, Inc.,

Morgan City; Halter/Trinity Marine,

New Orleans; and Service Marine

Industries, Inc., Morgan City.

Bids on the $35 million project are due on October 13 and the con- tract will be awarded one week later.

The construction of the Queen Of

New Orleans will employ 200 work- ers and is scheduled to be completed approximately one year after the start of work.

Phillips Awards Kvaerner $11.8 Million Contract

Phillips Petroleum Company re- cently awarded a 70-million Norwe- gian Krone ($11,767,000) contract to Kvaerner Engineering A/S, a unit of the Norwegian engineering and offshore group Kvaerner A/S, to sup- ply a detailed projection for an even- tual lifting of two Phillips oil plat- forms in the Ekofisk offshore oilfield.

Phillips will use the results of

Kvaerner Engineering's projection to decide whether to go ahead with lifting the platforms, which are re- portedly sinking into the sea floor.

In 1987 Phillips lifted six platforms in the Ekofisk field that were in a similar situation based on detailed specifications also provided by

Kvaerner.

The latest contract will occupy 80 engineers until 1994, including spe- cialists from Kvaerner Earl &

Wright, a structural steel division within the group's London-based

Kvaerner H & G Offshore.

Russians Ask U.S. To

Help Scrap Soviet Fleet

A recent visit to Washington, D.C. by senior Russian naval officials was the second attempt by the new re- public to obtain U.S. assistance in scrapping up to 600 Russian subma- rines and surface ships. The first delegation was unable to generate any U.S. interest in the project.

The delegation was led by Admi- ral Igor Mahonin, vice chief of staff of the Russian navy, who wants to begin scrapping over 80 nuclear attack and ballistic missile subma- rines containing more than 300 re- actors. In eight years the Russians have only been able to decommis- sion eight submarines.

Southwest Marine, San Fran- cisco, Calif., and The Technogrid

Group, New York, have proposed a joint ship breaking plan using U.S. equipment and Russian workers.

The companies would net an esti- mated $ 1 million per submarine and the Japanese have reportedly al- ready agreed to purchase the Rus- sian scrap metal.

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