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GULF REPORT

Ingalls To Outfit Drillship

For Transocean

Ingalls Shipbuilding has signed a contract to outfit the new drillship

Discoverer Enterprise, for

Transocean Offshore Inc. The con- tract, worth approximately $3.6 million, calls for Ingalls to load and integrate the final major compo- nents aboard the ship, including the substructure and derrick, as well as completing final outfitting.

Discoverer Enterprise is a techno- logically advanced drillship, capa- ble of drilling in waters up to 10,000 ft. (3.048 m) deep. The ves- sel is being built at Astilleros

Espanoles Astana shipyard, and

Halter Delivers Third New

Generation OSV To

Futuristic Boats

Halter Marine Group, Inc. has delivered OSV Kristin Fagan, the third vessel of Halter's new gener- ation of 205-ft. (62.5-m) OSVs from

Halter Marine, Lockport, La., to her owners, Futuristic Boats.

Kristin Fagan follows Admiral

Tide built for Tidewater, Inc., and

Seabulk Oklahoma built for

Seabulk Offshore, Ltd.

The all-steel vessel is powered by two EMD 16-645-E6 diesel engines developing a total of 3,900 hp through Reintjes WAF-1941 gears.

Maneuverability and thrust is aided by an SMI 460 bowthruster.

Navigation equipment was provid- ed by Furuno, communications equipment by Hose-McCann, and pollution control equipment pro- vided by Alfa-Laval. Deck equip- ment includes a McElroy 1.25-in. anchor windlass. The three deck ship has accommodations for 16 persons. More than 12 tons of

Carrier air conditioning and heat- ing provide comfort in all accom- modation areas.

Friede Goldman Names

Melton CFO

Friede Goldman International

Inc. recently announced the elec- tion of Jobie T. Melton Jr. as

CFO, as of July 1. With more than 27 years of accounting experience,

Mr. Melton previously served as the managing partner of the

Jackson office of Arthur Andersen

LLP.

July, 1998 will be contracted to Amoco Corp.

The Ingalls team involved in the program will include a core group of shipbuilders, test engineers, naval architects and reliability engineers.

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