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Argent To Reactivate

LNG Carrier

Argent Marine Services, owner of

LNG carrier Arzew, has reached an agreement of a time charter with a Shell company. In connection with this agree- ment, Argent will refurbish and reacti- vate Arzew for recommission. A sister- ship of the recently redeployed LNG

Delta was constructed as a U.S.-flag vessel in 1978 transporting gas from

Algeria to the U.S. east coast until 1980.

Formerly known as Southern, the vessel has been in lay-up in the James River since 1994 under the management of

Argent Marine Operations — an affili- ate of the owner. In anticipation of the vessel trading in shipping routes for international gas markets, Arzew was re- flagged under Marshall Islands registry last year. The vessel will transport car- goes from Oman to specific terminals in

Europe through Shell International

Trading and Shipping Company, who will operate the vessel for Argent per the amended time charter.

Aerial view of Verolme Botlek, a drydocking, repair and conversion yard located in Rotter- dam.

Shipping; the 80,745-dwt Petrotrym for

Golar Nor Offshore; and Aberdeen with 87,055-dwt for Northern Marine Man- agement.

Recent projects include the simultane- ously drydocking of two drilling rigs — semisubmersible rig Noble Ton van

Langevelt — as well as the Ensco jack- up rig Ensco 71.

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Kennedy Ship Repair

Inaugurated In Galveston

A new state-of-the-art facility consist- ing of a 315 x 96 ft. (96 x 29.2 m) basin dock with more than 40,000 sq. ft. of paved repair surface will be completed in the spring of 2000 — Kennedy Ship

Repair. Located on Galveston Bay. the facility will be next to the Inter-Coastal waterway at mile marker 351.

Focusing on repair of marine vessels, new vessel construction and pre-cast concrete caisson for the use in new marine terminals, this is the first envi- ronmentally safe structure of its type on the Gulf Coast. The facility is also con- structed to operate in compliance to all current, local, federal and clean air acts laws.

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MacGregor Completes

Modifications

MacGregor's RoRo division recently concluded stern ramp modifications on two freight RoRos that are changing route as a result of a new charter.

MacGregor converted the 4,600- dwt/1,045 lane-m sisterships Rodona and Sapphire for Rederi Engstrom,

Delivered in 1980, respectively as

Balder Dona and Balder Vinga by the

Swedish yard Karlskrona Varv, the ves- sels required the ramp modifications (from 12 to 16 m) as a result of their new charter to P&O North Sea Ferries.

Deployed on the Felistowe (England)-

Zeebrugge (Belgium) route, the vessel pair received its new ramps in early

October.

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