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McDermott, Brown & Root Form

Scottish Yard

McDermott Scotland, Ltd. and

Halliburton's Brown & Root Energy

Services have combined forces to form an equally owned company,

Brown & Root McDermott Fabrica- tors. The new company will merge yards at Ardersier and Nigg, North

Sea fabrication yards in the High- land Region.

Brown & Root McDermott Fabri- cators possesses the capability of providing a fully integrated range of construction services for the North

Sea, combining the engineering, pipelay, subsea and fabrication skills of Brown & Root with the design, transportation, and installation of offshore pipelines and subsea facil- ity functions of McDermott.

McDermott has also entered into an agreement with Oryx Energy Com- pany to build the Gulf of Mexico's first spar production facilities.

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Rolla Selects U.S. Repair Facility

Philip M. Rolla, director of

Italy's Rolla SP Propellers SA, has announced the appointment of The

Machine Works at Essex, Conn., as the repair facility for all Rolla pro- pellers. Over the past year, The

Machine Works at Essex has worked closely with Rolla to repair propel- lers that owners did not wish to send back to Italy or that had been im- properly reconditioned by other machine shops.

For more information on Rolla

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Smit Tak Completes Removal

Smit Tak has completed the re- moval of the 64,000-dwt wreck Sea

Transporter on the coast of Goa,

India. The vessel sank after being grounded in mid-1994 in a monsoon storm. The wreck was removed be- cause it posed a threat to a tourist center in Fort Aguada, and was towed north to a scrapyard at Alang.

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Mitsui And NQEA In Agreement

To Produce Catamarans

Mitsui Engineering and Ship- building Co., Ltd. (MES) and NQEA

Australia Pty. Ltd. (NQEA),

Queensland-based builder of alumi- num high-speed craft, have an agree- ment to produce Mitsui's semi-sub- merged catamaran (SSC) locally in

Australia. The SSC, also known as

SWATH, or small waterplane area twin hull, comprises two torpedo- shaped submerged lower hulls which take up most of the displacement, joined to the upper structure with streamlined struts. The unique hull form combined with fin stabilizers gives the craft a structure less af- fected by waves, reducing by up to 50 percent the pitching and rolling motion of conventional craft. MES has built 13 SSCs. MES and NQEA are seeking the possibility of ex- panding their collaboration to in- clude production of other high-speed craft.

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Tyner Appointed Manager

At Raytheon

Raytheon Marine announced the appointment of Madeleine Tyner as customer service manager for all marine divisions. Ms. Tyner will be responsible for overseeing activ- ity in the customer service depart- ment for the Raytheon, Apelco and

Autohelm product lines.

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PSY Considers Sole

Contractor Proposals

The Port of Portland has received nine responses from shipyard com- panies expressing interest in be- coming the sole contractor of the

Portland Ship Yard (PSY).

PSY is planning to move away from the multi-contractor system.

Port management is examining pro- posals from nine potential sole con- tractors, in an attempt to reorga- nize PSY.

The companies who have ex- pressed interest in operation and management of PSY are:

Metro Machine Corp., Halla Busi- ness Group, Todd Pacific Shipyards

Corp., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,

Cascade General, Inc., Babcock Fa- cilities Management Division, Na- tional Steel and Shipbuilding Co.,

Zidell Marine Corp., and Dolphin

Industries. It is the Port's intention to select a sole operator in the first half of the year.

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