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New Stolt Comex Seaway

Contracts Add To Growing

Order Book

Major recent contract awards have increased the December 1 con- tract backlog for Stolt Comex Sea- way (SCS) to $200 million, which compares with the January 1993 backlog of $204 million. A signifi- cant part of the current backlog is for work beyond 1994, although the latest contracts both begin in early 1994.

Two recent contracts in the North

Sea totaling $18 million are welcome additions to the growing SCS order book for the 1994 offshore season. "We are pleased with the present growth of the SCS order book. We are progressing at a satisfactory pace," said SCS President Guy

Fleury.

The first contract, secured by

SCS's U.K. division, is for the tie-in of the Amerada Hess Hudson field manifold and pipelines to the Tern platform. Valued at $9 million, the contract involves installation of 30 pipeline spool pieces, the lay and trenching of three umbilicals, and the installation of the control sys- tem components. The work will be conducted from the DSV Seaway

Harrier with the DSV Seaway Con- dor undertaking the umbilical lay and trench.

A second contract, valued at $9 million for the years 1994-1996, has been awarded to SCS's Norway divi- sion by Elf Norge. The contract calls for the provision of extensive ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) services and will include drill support, pipe- line inspection as well as the inspec- tion of subsea structures.

Of note in the Elf contract is

SCS's commitment to provide a sub- stantial amount of specially-devel- oped state of the art equipment in- cluding the Computer Assisted

Telemanipulation (CAT) System.

The product of more than five years of SCS research, the CAT System enables diverless automated struc- tural inspection and is the latest generation in subsea ROV technol- ogy, incorporating artificial intelli- gence and stereovideogrammetry.

Atlantic Marine

Certified To ISO 9002

Atlantic Marine, Inc.'s facility in

Mobile, Ala. was certified to ISO 9002 quality standards for ship re- pair and conversion by ABS Quality

Evaluations, Inc., an independent, third party certifier accredited by the RvC and RAB.

ISO 9002 is the standard for qual- ity assurance for companies involved in the production and installation of a product.

Morgan To Manufacture

Eight Cranes For Textron

Morgan Marine of Santa Ana,

Calif, received a purchase order from

Textron Marine Systems for eight marine cranes. The cranes are to be installed on the LCAC built by

Textron. Delivery is to take place in

February 1994.

Morgan Marine has also been appointed the exclusive distributor of Effer Marine Cranes for the U.S.

Morgan Marine, a manufacturer/ distributor of knuckleboom and tele- scoping boom marine cranes, also represents Hiab Seacranes, Trident

Marine Cranes, Aurora Cranes,

Fassi Marine Cranes, Ferrari Ma- rine Cranes and Morgan Marine

Cranes. For more information on

Morgan Marine,

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INTERTANKO To Toughen

Membership Criteria

The INTERTANKO Council de- cided to recommend to the forth- coming Annual General Meeting (AGM), to be held in Washington in

May 1994, that all tankers entered in INTERTANKO must, from Janu- ary 1,1995, be classed by classifica- tion societies which are members of the International Association of

Classification Societies (IACS). This follows a decision made by the 1993

AGM to require that all new mem- bers' tonnage should be so classed.

By extending this requirement to existing membership tonnage,

INTERTANKO further underlines its determination to maintain higher standards.

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