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specialized area and the combina- tion has been quite effective," said

Government Programs Vice

President Bill Wheeler.

Hamworthy Marine Wins

British Supply Contract

The U.K. Ministry of Defense has reportedly awarded Hamworthy

Marine a contract to update the sewage treatment systems onboard its Hunt class mine coun- termeasure vessels. The systems currently installed aboard the 13 [vessels fail to meet IMO and Coast

Guard standards. The design parameters of the Hamworthy sys- tems to be installed are based on the company's Super Trident sewage treatment plant, which was designed to be in compliance with MARPOL Annex IV require- ments.

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Supply Contract

Under a contract to provide two ligh-speed ferries to the city of

Vallejo, Calif., commercial boat-

Duilder Dakota Creek Industries of \nacortes, Wash., chose Delta T systems, Inc. to provide salt and noisture-free ventilation to the two boats' engine rooms. Moisture eliminators constructed from polypropylene were chosen to sup- ply the vessels' large diesel engines adequately.

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Halter Marine Acquires

McDermott Yard

Halter Marine Group, Inc. has acquired the McDermott Inc.

Three Rivers shipyard on the

Industrial Seaway in Gulfport,

Miss. Terms of the acquisition ivere not disclosed. The facility, low known as Halter Gulfport, will be used for the fabrication of steel bulk mud tanks which hold drilling muds and other materials used in the offshore energy indus- tries. The plant will also reported- ly produce aluminum components for vessels under construction at other Halter yards and will even- tually build complete aluminum vessels.

Bardex To Supply Drillship

Hydraulic Power Units

Bardex Industries, Inc. of

Houston, Texas, was awarded a contract from Deepwater Drilling

LLC — a 50/50 joint venture of

Conoco and Reading & Bates — for two central hydraulic power units for use on the dynamically posi- tioned drillship being built by

Samsung Heavy Industries in

Korea for deployment in the Gulf of Mexico. Each skid-mounted unit will consist of two 150-hp motor pump assemblies capable of deliv- ering 75 gpm at 3,000 psi each; a 350-gallon reservoir with all asso- ciated temperature and level switches; a stainless steel heat exchanger; an air-operated fill pump assembly; and an oil filtra- tion system.

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Bardex Industries

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