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NORWEGIAN MARITIME REVIEW remote control, and it applies its technology to drilling, production units, subsea and environment.

Significant contracts in 1995 includ- ed participation in the upgrade of

Maersk Giant for use on the Yme field in the North Sea. The Hitec board also decided to enter the ROV market in 1995, based on the Group's competence in remote control, automation and hydraulics. At the beginning of this year, Hitec complet- ed the takeover of UDS AS, a compa- ny engaged in the engineering of remotely controlled subsea opera- tions.

Innovation Offshore

The offshore market is, naturally, a prime market for many Norwegian maritime firms. The general upward trend of offshore technology driving worldwide production has been a boon for many firms, including

Ulstein Propeller, which secured its largest single installation for Ulstein thrusters.

The contract is worth more than

NOK 50 million, and includes an order for eight TCNP 120 azimuthing units from Sedco Forex

International, part of the multi- national Schlumberger Group. The units are for installation on the semi- submersible rig Sedco 707. Each thruster features a CP, 3.3-m. diame- ter propeller, and has an output of 3,000 bhp (2,200 kW). The units are electrically driven by AC motors, and

Ulstein Propeller is also supplying an electronic remote control system for interfacing to the rig's new dynamic positioning system. When complete, the rig will keep station using only the DP-controlled thrusters, with the use of anchors.

The quick-growth FPSO market has also attracted Norwegian firms, namely Rapp Bomek and Autronica.

Fire doors for FPSOs are a growing market for Rapp Bomek, according to the company, and it is "definitely an area we focus on," said Tore

Torrissen, sales manager. Rapp sees world oil producers investing more into FPSO oil retrieval, and projections estimate up to 60 new units will be built by 2000. To date,

Rapp Bomek has supplied exterior fire doors for six vessels. On the more traditional platform side, Rapp

Bomek recently signed a five-year agreement with Statoil concerning maintenance for the Heidrun plat- form. The contract includes all doors on the platform, including 366

Bomek fire doors, as well as doors from other manufacturers.

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Autronica recently was tasked to provide a networked, intrinsically safe fire and gas detection system to protect the new FPSO being built in Japan for Rasmussen

Offshore. The equipment will be integrated with the fire, gas and safety critical control systems architecture designed by

Silvertech, a U.K. based supplier.

Autronica's system incorporates approximately 300 intrinsically safe detectors, monitored by two

BS-100 control panels. Each ana- log smoke and heat sensor is indi- vidually monitored.

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Range Of Thruster Solutions

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