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conference and exhibition will be held in Biloxi, Miss., from

October 12-14, 1998, at the

Mississippi Gulf Coast Convention

Center. The indoor and outdoor exhibition will include one of the largest displays of products, tech- nologies and services of its kind.

The event will be even more com- prehensive in its scope than it has been in previous years, with the addition of the haz-mat spill indus- try and the inland environmental marketplace. Two conference tracks — one for coastal/offshore response issues and one for inland response issues — will be offered, consisting of three and four semi- nars, respectively. Coastal semi- nars include dispersants in transi- tion by air and sea, future of the response community and haz- ardous substance response plan.

Inland seminars include oil/haz- mat basic inland regulations, basic inland issues I and II and insur- ance issues for marine and land. major components aboard the ship, including the substructure and derrick, as well as completing the final outfitting and testing.

Discoverer Enterprise is capable of drilling in waters up to 10,000 ft. deep. The ship measures 835 ft. long, 125 ft. wide and with 111,000 dwt fully loaded.

Once the ship is completed and delivered by Ingalls, she will sail in the Gulf of Mexico to begin drilling work south of the

Louisiana Coast.

The ship was built at Astilleros

Espanoles — Astano, in El Ferrol,

Spain, and will be contracted by

Amoco Corp., which signed a con- tract with Ingalls to oversee the testing and trials program for the drillship.

Chevron U.S.A. Production

Co. (operator) and its joint-ven- ture partners — Shell Deepwater

Development Inc., EEX Corp. and

Enterprise Oil Gulf of Mexico Inc. — set a new water-depth world record of 7,718 ft. as they began drilling their initial exploratory test well in the Gulf of Mexico's

Atwater Valley Block 118, about 175 miles southeast of New

Orleans. The Chevron-led team anticipates the well, designated

Atwater Valley 118 #1, will reach target depth of 15,471 ft. below the seabed in the fourth quarter of this year. Fabled Glomar Explorer — initially built for U.S. intelligence work — is drilling the record- breaking well. With a

Chevron/Texaco five-year contract in hand, Global Marine, owner of

Explorer, outfitted the ship with $200-million worth of state-of-the- art drilling and dynamic-position- ing technology. Over the next five years, Chevron and Texaco will alternate into the 'operator' posi- tion as they go forward with plans to drill 20 deepwater wells in the

Gulf of Mexico.

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