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P and H Marine Appoints New

Associates

Located in Portsmouth, N.H., P and H

Marine has appointed Dr. Lee Alexan- der to senior technical associate and

Captain Richard J. Cobanli to senior associate. Alexander, formerly the tech- nical advisor for Offshore Systems, has been actively involved in electronic chart-related technologies for more than 15 years and serves on a number of

IMO, IHO and IEC committees dealing with electronic standards. Cobanli has more than 15 years experience with ves- sel operations and management consult- ing in the maritime industry, most recently as a senior auditor with Det

Norske Veritas.

Global Industries Concludes

Two Significant Extensions

Global Industries has completed two major extensions to the Destin Pipeline system by way of automatic welding on the system's second extension in the

Gulf of Mexico — a first for the Hous- ton-based company. The second of a two-part series of extensions was installed separately to a maximum water depth of 770 ft. (234.6 m). Supporting two natural gas developments in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the project was accomplished during the fourth quarter of 1998 and the first quarter of 1999.

Kongsberg Simrad Reaches

Agreement With R&B Falcon

Kongsberg Simrad, based in Houston,

Texas, will supply R&B Falcon Drilling with a Total Integrated Vessel Control

System for R&B's new building RBS8D

Ultra Deepwater Class III Semi.

The order follows the deliveries of the systems for the Pathfinder Class Drill- ship and for RBS8M Drilling Rig to

R&B Falcon.

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MacGregor To Supply New

RoRo Equipment

German yard HDW has placed con- tracts worth $8 million with MacGregor for new RoRo equipment on two of its

SuperFast Ferries. Greek owner Attica

Enterprises has ordered four of the Mac-

Gregor outfitted ferries from HDW and has recently exercised its option for two additional vessels — bringing HDW's orders for RoRo equipment to a total of $24 million.

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Keppel Shipyard Awarded Two

Projects from SBM

Keppel Shipyards was awarded two conversion projects by Single Buoy

Moorings (SBM). The first contract is to convert the 87,811-dwt tanker MT

Metsoven to a Floating Storage and

Offloading (FSO) facility with storage capacity for up to 500,000 barrels of condensate. The second contract was granted for the conversion of an existing

Floating Production Storage and

Offloading (FPSO) vessel named FPSO

VI. Upon completion in the year 2000,

SBM will lease the FSO to PPML who will operate the vessel for 15 years.

Caterpillar Diesel Engines To

Supply Power For Sedco Rigs

Six diesel-fueled Caterpillar 3616 engines will supply more than 26 MW of electricity to power three technology- advanced deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs from Schlumberger Sedco

Forex. Two of the dynamically posi- tioned rigs are under construction at the

DCN Brest shipyard in France, with a third rig is being built by PPL in Singa- pore. The first of these rigs is scheduled to begin operation in the Gulf of Mexi- co in December 1999 as part of a five- year contract with Texaco Inc. Com- pared to conventional semis, the Sedco

Express rig is designed with a lower center of gravity, a feature that offers greater stability, increased deck load capacity and reduced noise.

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