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PRODUCT FOCUS

ARCO, BP Put Call Out For

Additional Capacity

Pool Energy Services Co. received two separate letters of intent which will require the upgrade of two currently idle

Alaska land drilling rigs for opera- tion on the North Slope under term contracts. The company also said it agreed to purchase the

Oceandril Ranger, a jack-up workover rig located in the Gulf of

Mexico, from Oceandril Partners

LC for about $8.2 million. It is expected that the purchase will be completed within 30 days and operations will commence soon thereafter. Pool Energy received a letter of intent from ARCO Alaska

Inc. authorizing material and equipment procurement for upgrading Rig 6, an Arctic explo- ration drilling rig, to a develop- ment drilling rig configuration, at an estimated cost of $15 million.

Following these modifications, the rig is expected to commence year- round drilling operations in the

Kuparuk area of the North Slope in the summer of 1998 under a three-year contract. The company also received a letter of intent from

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. call- ing for the conversion of Rig 122, a land drilling rig designed for oper- ations in South Alaska, to an

Arctic exploration drilling rig at an estimated cost of $5.2 million.

After refurbishment, this rig is expected to start operations east of

Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope in early 1998 under a five-year con- tract. make use of the improved graphi- cal handling of Tribon. This means modeled components will automatically be updated in all active views, including color-shad- ed views. Extended functionality has been implemented for the physical breakdown of modeled objects to assemblies; for example, a whole block may be split into two by an arbitrary plane.

A new Quick Nesting function has been implemented, which, together with other enhance- ments, is designed to lead to increased productivity.

Tribon Work Preparation includes a number of improve- ments with respect to the handling of outfitting and complex hull parts, which allow for more flexi- bility to reflect a shipyard's pro- duction environment in the assem- bly definition. KCS reports that the ease and speed of defining the breakdown of a ship into assem- blies has been improved by the introduction of a file import and export facility for assembly tree structures.

Finally, a new Color Shading option makes it possible to use the true 3-D solid representation for viewing and modeling the Tribon

Product Information Model.

This option makes use of the

OpenGL, which is a vendor-neu- tral, multi-platform industry stan- dard for 2-D and 3-D visualization.

For more information on Tribon 4

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The Tribon Product Information Model. Pictured is a section of the KDX Frigate, built by Daewoo's

Special and Naval Shipbuilding Division, and launched at the Okpo Shipyard last year.

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