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Brown & Root Wins

Chevron Contract

Brown & Root Energy Services has won a 10-year contract to pro- vide Chevron Corp. with drilling products and services in the Gulf of

Mexico. Under Chevron's Deep

Water Alliance, Brown & Root joins

Aker Maritime Inc., Saipem Inc., and Han- Padron Associates in pro- viding engineering, construction, and project management at

Chevron deepwater fields.

Litton Marine Wins Contract

From Taiwan Navy

Litton Marine System was awarded a contract from the

Taiwan Navy to provide ring laser gyrocompasses, navigation radars and other onboard systems for 11 new offshore patrol vessels.

The Decca BridgeMaster radars will utilize a new design operator console which provides easy track- ball or keyboard operation. The 11 patrol vessels are being built at

China Shipbuilding in Koashung and are scheduled for delivery beginning in 1999.

A.P. Moeller Orders

Six Ships

Danish shipping and oil group

A.P. Moeller ordered six 3,700-

TEU containerships from its whol- ly-owned Odense shipyard in cen- tral Denmark. According to

Moeller, which owns Maersk Line, the vessels will be delivered start- ing in 2000.

Litton Marine Systems

Installs VTS In Egypt

Litton Marine Systems has com- pleted the installation of a vessel traffic monitoring system for the

Port of Damietta, Egypt.

The system was developed and installed by Litton's INA Division of Rotterdam. It is based on INA's unique VTS-Master technology, which permits remote display of raw video data from shore-based surveillance radars superimposed on geographical maps of the har- bor. The VTS provides shoreside detection and tracking of vessels sailing in the area under control by the Damietta Port authorities.

Chevron Announces First Oil

From Dibi Field

Onshore Nigeria

Chevron has started production from the Dibi oil field in the west-

July, 1998 ern Niger Delta. Dibi is the latest in a series of successful projects brought onto production this year by the Chevron/Nigerian National

Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) joint ven- ture. To maximize efficiency, the field will initially utilize facilities previously employed in the Benin

River field.

Installation of full production facilities will be completed in 1999.

Bergesen Sells Gas Carrier

Norway's largest shipping group, Bergesen d.y. ASA, sold gas carrier Hemera to Indian interests for approximately $16 million.

The 52,648-cu.-m. vessel, built in 1974, was expected to be deliv- ered this month.

Saferoute Acquires

Barbican Trade

Saferoute, a unit of SCL — the container shipping joint venture between South Africa's Safmarine and Rennies Holdings Ltd. and

Belgium's CMBT Lines, will take over Barbican Lines' trade between

European and South Africa.

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