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Litton Subsidiary Wins $ 11M Navy Contract

PRC fcic., a subsidiary of Litton

Industries, has been awarded a five-yearVecompete contract worth $11 million from the U.S. ^lavy's

Sea Systems Command.

The company will provide sup- port to wie Combat Systems

Engineering (CSE) Division at

Wallops Island, Va., in support of the \ Airborne / Early

Warning/Ground / Central

Environment Integration Systems (AEGIS) Comfcat Syste/is Center.

The work includes ^automated information syltems support, man- agement and technical/information support. "This important win continues

PRC's support i) thel Navy's lead- ing AEGIS training and engineer- ing center on thi Eastern shore of

Virginia for anqtblr five years," said PRC presidqri/ Len Pomata. "This win repre

PRC's seventh cc recompetes andy start to calendaij which llii 11111111,111 says illustrates its growing present in FPSO market.

Subsidiary UiE Scotland Ltd. has been named by Esso Norge AS to carry out the modification of the

Balder FPSO, located in the North

Sea west of Stavanger, Norway.

The contract has a minim value of $7 million and includes internal strengthening of the steel hull and installation of additional risers on process units. The FPSO will drydock in March at UiE

JSTTtekm^s Inchgreen drydocl work is sm&eh»le4tajje

Bouy&e^COffshore's 50 plT**^ led Saibos CML joint venture was awarded a $8 million contract from Oceaneering International,

Inc. to upgrade the process units of the Zafiro oil field's FPSO in

Equitorial^C^inea, operated by

The project is designed to increase the FPSO's production capacity, is slated to begin this month and to last for three jths, and entails connection of two ne^aroduction and separation modules as well as their integra- tion into Zafiro's existing facilities. fents CSE and lsecutive win of very exciting ;ar 1997."

Controversy Surrounds

Future Of talifoqnia Naval

Station Facilities

Irate ta^ayers on Aie U.S. West

Coast hare filed a lawsuit to pro- hibit the/city of Long Beach, Long

Beach Karbor and tie state of

California from destroying the facilities at the Long Blach Naval

Station in order to buiM a cargo- contaiAer facility for usefcy a com- pany I owned by the \ People's

Republic of China. suit demands that tiie naval

I with its historical landmarks as buildings, dormitories,

National facilities gwid an ipic-sized swimming jlool, be to benefit the genera^ public

I not a foreign company, le plaintiffs claim that tile land upJn which the naval station is built is an asset of the California

Tilelands Trust, which is protected frlm commercial use under ilifornia's state constitution.

Bouygues Offshore Wins

Two Major Contracts

International oil and gas services contractor Bouygues Offshore S.A. has been awarded two contracts

February, 1997

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