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Bisso Wins Two Contracts;

Assists Titan With 220-Ton

Loading Conveyor

Bisso Marine of New Orleans, La. has been awarded the contract by

Exxon Company to set three bridges and one deck for the Mobile Bay

Project. The 600-ton D/B Lili Bisso will be used for the work. 148

A Bisso Marine derrick repositions a 220-ton ship loading conveyor on its pivotal foundation.

Circle 301 on Reader Service Card

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Bisso has also been contracted by

Flash Gas & Oil Southwest, Inc. to remove two well caissons and one platform in Galveston Block 310-L.

For this job, the 700-ton D/B Cappy

Bisso will be used.

The Cappy Bisso was also used recently to assist Titan Maritime

Industries, Inc. in Ocean Cay, Ba- hamas, lifting a 220-ton ship load- ing conveyor back onto its pivotal foundation.

The derrick was towed to the Ba- hamas by the 110-foot tug Darlene

Bisso.

Prepares For MTS '93

Marine Technology Society

MTS'93 Conference & Exposition

Technology Requirements in the

Nineties, Sept. 22-24, is an interna- tional business forum and exposition designed to strengthen dialogue be- tween industry and the federal government regarding available technology and existing procure- ments. For more information call

MTS at (800) 336-4583.

Bardex Skidding System

To Be Used In

Wheeled Bogie Transfers

Bardex Corporation of Goleta,

California has been selected by Gen- eral Dynamics, Electric Boat Divi- sion to provide a hydraulic skidding system to transfer wheeled bogies operating on 105 lb. crane rail within a test facility at the Aberdeen Prov- ing Grounds. The wheeled bogies will be used to transfer a large ve- hicle containing components to be shock-tested from a barge to a ma- rine railway that lowers the compo- nents into a test pond. The Bardex system will consist of four 25-ton push-pull capacity rail gripper-jack assemblies, a hydraulic power unit equipped with a hydraulic oil heat exchanger, a 3,000- psi piston pump and an air cooled 112-hp diesel en- gine, plus a control console for con- trol of the gripper-jack assemblies and hydraulic lift cylinders.

HMS Marine Becomes Dealer

For NT Falcon Co.

HMS Marine Hardware, Inc., maker of ships habitability hard- ware products and smoke-contain- ment curtains, has been appointed authorized dealer for NT Falcon Co.

NT Falcon manufactures a full line of door locking devices, includ- ing all-stainless steel joiner door locksets (designated X-series), fully certified to U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast

Guard specifications of heavy duty marine-grade locksets.

HMS Marine will carry a full line of the all-stainless steel locksets in stock for immediate delivery of the most popular lock functions.

Bandera Wins Zaafarana

Contract For Oil Platform In

Gulf Of Suez

Bandera Engineering Inc., of

Houston, Texas, was awarded a turn- key contract by Zaafarana Oil Com- pany of Cairo, Egypt, to design, con- struct, transport and install a four- pile well protector/production plat- form in the Gulf of Suez. The plat- form will have at least one helideck as well as boat landings, and will be constructed in 189 feet of water.

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