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LR Awarded Conoco Banff

FPSO Contract

Lloyd's Register (LR) has been award- ed a $1 million, three-year contract by

Atlantic Power and Gas to provide integrity management, verification and classification services to the Ramform

Banff FPSO. The contract forms an extension to LR's current contract agreement with Atlantic Power and Gas on the Texaco Gallery FPSO.

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DRS Technologies Wins

Ingalls Contract

Ingalls Shipbuilding has awarded a $2.8 million contract to the DRS Flight

Safety and Communications unit of

DRS Technologies, Inc. to provide Cen- tralized Communications Systems for retrofit installation on frigates destined for the Armada of the Republic of

Venezuela. DRS will supply its Ship- board Integrated Communications (SHINCOM) 2100 system which fea- tures a dual homing architecture initial- ly developed for the Canadian Navy.

Bermuda Company Acquires

N.Y./N.J. Ferry Operator

Sea Containers Ltd., marine container lessor, passenger transport and hotels operator of Hamilton, Bermuda has acquired Express Navigation, Inc. from

Holyman Ltd. of Australia in a $5 mil- lion transaction. Express Navigation provides services with three passenger ferries between Manhattan and Brook- lyn, New York and two ports in New Jer- sey. James B. Sherwood, president of

Sea Containers Ltd., said that Express

Navigation is the company's first pas- senger transport investment in the U.S. and will form a part of a group of U.S.- based ferry services which the company will seek to initiate in the future.

Parametric Technology Receives $20 Million Order

Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), developer of the Pro/ENGI-

NEER family of software tools used to automate mechanical product develop- ment, has recently received a five-year, $20 million order for Pro/ENGINEER software and services from Mannes- mann of Duesseldorf, Germany. Man- nesmann's core business sectors are engineering, automotive, telecommuni- cations, and tubes.

CDI Builds New DSV

Cal Dive is building a new DSV to replace the Cal Diver IV which has been sold. The new vessel, which will retain the name Cal Diver IV, is under con- struction at R&S Fabrication, Inc. in

Lockport, Louisiana. Like its predeces- sor, the new vessel will be ideally suited for supporting general diving such as: pipeline inspections, pipeline commis- sioning and decommissioning, platform inspections and repairs, wellhead inspections, drilling rig support, and "liveboating" operations. Although the mission of the new build remains basi- cally unchanged, its increase in size and capacity will enable it to conduct small construction projects.

CDI expects delivery in the second quarter of 1999.

Donjon Awarded Navy

Salvage Tug Lease

The U.S. Navy has awarded Donjon

Marine Co. Inc. a five-year lease of the tug USNS Powhatan. The multi-purpose tug can conduct long-distance tows and (Continued on page 15)

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