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tion for the design of the SDM.

Halter will build the SDMs for approximately $3 million each.

Including certain owner-fur- nished\ea6.ipment, professional fees anc% contingencies, the total cost of eapfe vessel is approximate- ly $4.75AnilMon.

Two /of tnte vessels will be assigned to Hide's Mobile Bay

Towing unit in Mobile, Ala., and the third will be stationed at Port

Everglades, Fla. \

Maryland Company

Jumps Into

Offshore Boom

Bill Brown Enterprises (BBE) has expanded its operations into the booming offshore construsljon market. £ \

The company * is| yp^iJiari]|r involve^ in supplying lpj|tin^^pli- tilatic^n and flVAC sgMeiteJfor the passenger vesse?»markit. BBE has eAlfffleaNts mrAC System con- tracting^Ctivif^es, and has recent- ly completed several offshore rig contracts, including: • Design and installation of the HVAC system for new- build Gorilla V jack-up rig for

Rowan Drilling, built at the

LeTourneau Shipyard in

Mississippi; • Installation of a new HVAC system on rig R-90 Endurer at the Amfels Shipyard in

Brownsville, Texas; • Provision of HVAC system modifications in conjunction with the repairs and conver- sion of Trans Ocean offshore rig Marianas at Amfels; and • Installation of a modified

HVAC system for the conver- sion of Trans Ocean offshore rigAmiranted at Amfels.

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Ulstein Benefits From

Offshore Boom

The Ulstein Group won contracts valued at NOK 3.4 billion last year, an increase of more than

NOK 1.1 billion compared with 1995, due in large part to the off- shore vessel building boom.

The company said that half of the offshore vessels ordered from

Norwegian or foreign yards over the past two years have been developed by Ulsteimand that the pr offshore v#ssi busiftes, latfe been mffny c; fegfei£diBg the*"§xuberance of arldwide offshore market,

Ulstein vice president Steinar

Siversten Kulen does not think saturation is a threat. He predict- ed that shipowners — with the as their principal mar- continue to order new 97, although activity he by year end, and be picked up in other areas, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Asia Pacific region.

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