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Associate Editor • Jennifer Rabulan rabulan@marinelink.com

Technical Editor David Tinsley

Contributing Editor Dennis L. Bryant

Senior Maritime Counsel, Holland & Knight

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International Maritime Associates

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ADVERTISING SALES

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Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984

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Manager, Accounting Services

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Manager, Public Relations

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PUBLISHERS

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International Sales Operations

Managing Director, International Sales

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Contents

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Government Update 17 Lemons, Tiles & False Assumptions

Dennis Bryant reviews maritime safety initiatives and results since 9/11.

Offshore Technology Annual 24 LNG Will Lead the Way

Searching for new business? A new study predicts $67 billion will be spent on LNG plants, terminals and vessels. 30 Hunting for Oil with Microfossils

The study of microfossils is helping scientists find hydrocarbon resources more efficiently. — By Robert B. Witrock 34 Moving LNG Offshore: Will it Work?

As gas production grows in importance, experts are devising the means to make the recovery and delivery more efficient. 35 No Slump Here

Keppel Fels has started the new year by logging nearly a billion dollars in new rig orders and upgrades.

Canada 50 Northern Exposure

The Canadian maritime industry plans now for a brighter future. — By Vice Admiral Peter W. Cairns

Investment in Design 73 Multi-Story Carrier

Wilh Wilhelmsen debuts an impressive class of PCTCs. www.stearnssafety.com

Stearns I 590 Cold Water

Immersion Suit

Beginning in 2006, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will make it mandatory for all cargo vessels operating in or traveling through cold-water areas to have one cold- water immersion suit per person on board.

As you prepare to comply with the new IMO-MSC 78 regulations, look to the one name more maritime professionals worldwide have trusted with their lives—and the lives of their crew—since 1941, STEARNS. The most popular and most technologically-advanced immersion suit in the industry, the

Stearns I590, the ultimate in anti-hypothermia protection.

Call or go online for a free catalog, and to receive the free CD: “How to inspect and don your cold-water immersion suit.”

Stearns, Inc. P.O. Box 1498 • St. Cloud, MN 56302 phone: 320.252.1642 fax: 320.252.4425

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