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TANKER TECHNOLOGY 7 LNG Carriers Worth $1.75 Billion Ordered

Korea Gas Corp. has awarded seven liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier orders to four domestic firms. Reports indicate that

Hyundai Merchant Marine Co.,

Yukong Line Ltd. and Hanjin

Shipping Co. each won orders for two carriers, and Korea Line Corp. was contracted for one carrier.

Each selected firm teamed up with a shipbuilding company:

Hyundai with Hyundai Heavy

Industries Co.; Yukong with

Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd.;

Hanjin with Hanjin Heavy

Industries Co.; and Korea Line with Daewoo Heavy Industries Co.

South Korea, which does not pro- duce natural gas, but plans to have the carriers ready for operation in the year 2000 for transporting

LNG imports. Each LNG carrier is estimated to cost approximately $250 million, bringing the seven- ship order total to about $1.75 bil- lion.

Lisnave Gets Conversion

Contract

Lisnave-Estaleiros Navais de

Lisboa won two contracts worth 17 billion escudos to be carried out this year. One contract, worth $61.6 million, is to convert

Peregrine VI, a gas transport ves- sel with a capacity of 130,000 tons, into a ship capable of working on oil terminals. The second contract, worth $32 million, is for work on a ship belonging to Brazilian oil company Petrobras.

For more information on Lisnave

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Danyard Delivers Chem

Tanker To Stolt Nielsen

Stolt Parcel Tankers Inc., a sub- sidiary of Stolt-Nielsen SA, has taken delivery of the fourth in a series of seven 37,000-dwt chemi- cal carriers being built by

Danyard, a subsidiary of

Denmark's J. Lauritzen Holding

A/S.

NASSCO Selected To Design

New Tanker For BP

National Steel And

Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has announced that it has been selected to design a million-barrel- capacity, double-hull tanker for

British Petroleum (BP), with options for two more vessels.

The design development phase for the new commercial ship will be a joint project with BP and

Maritime Overseas Corporation <

I 5 O 5 (MOC) — the operating agent for

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. — whom BP has selected to oper- ate the first of up to three ships.

In addition to the BP design contract, NASSCO is part of the team led by Northrop Grumman that has been selected as one of three teams to design the Navy's 21st century Arsenal Ship for the

Defense Advanced Research

Project Agency (DARPA). The company is also currently complet- ing work on the third of three

Sealift Conversion ships.

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Saab TankRadar -

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The Parabolic Antenna Gauge is used on most types of tankers carrying various cargoes.

The Fast Opening Parabolic

Antenna Gauge is used on tankers carrying hot and sticky products such as asphalt/bitumen or molten sulphur.

The Cone Antenna Gauge is used on small tankers, in shallow tanks and where space on deck is limited.

The LPG/LNG Gauge is used on tankers carrying liquefied gas.

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