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Contracts

April 2008 Issue

Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS), Jupiter, Florida, contract awarded (terms not provided) to supply 10 next-generation Triton® XLX remotely operated vehicle systems. PSS will deliver five systems each year throughout 2009 and 2010. This latest order brings the total number of PSS systems contracted by the client in the last 30 months to 21. (DOF Subsea)

Germanischer Lloyd (GL), Hamburg, Germany, contracts awarded (terms not provided) for six container vessels to be built with GL classifications. The contract signings are for four 1,730-TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) and two 1,800-TEU container vessels. (Halong and Bach Dang shipyards)

Veripos, Aberdeen, Scotland, contract awarded (terms not provided) for provision of high-precision differential global positioning system (GPS) services in support of site survey and rig positioning operations being carried out in the Mahakam Delta in Indonesia. The services are being used in support of jack-up, semisubmersible and swamp drilling barge operations, as well as shallow-water survey vessels engaged in assisting dredging and work barge activities. (PT Pageo Indonesia)

Hydro Group plc, Aberdeen, Scotland, two contracts awarded (terms not provided) to provide pressure hull penetrators to be used on diver decompression chambers and submersible diving chambers. (Divex Ltd.)

ODIM ASA, Hareid, Norway, NOK50 million contract award to deliver automated handling systems for two anchor-handling tug supply vessels, being built by Aker Yards ASA (Oslo, Norway) in Aukra, Norway. Delivery is scheduled from the first quarter of 2009 to the third quarter of 2010. Two sets of ODIM AHF™ anchor-handling frames account for a substantial part of the contract, the company said. The yard has a cancel term until the end of 2008 for the ODIM AHF on the last vessel. (DOF ASA)

Kongsberg Maritime AS, Kongsberg, Norway, contract awarded (terms not provided) for the supply of a complete acoustic equipment package for the new Chilean research vessel, the MEDUSA Project. The scope of supply includes fishery research equipment, a High-Precision Acoustic Positioning 500, a complete hydrographic package and system integration. The research vessel will be built from 2008 and 2010 at the client’s shipyard in Talcahuano, Chile. (ASMAR)

Sonardyne International Ltd., Yateley, England, $1 million in contracts awarded to supply multiple Sentinel sonar heads for the new Integrated Swimmer Defense System led by the Program Executive Office, Littoral Mine Warfare, and to integrate and deploy Sentinel systems as part of an expeditionary warfare requirement, following successful trials in October. (U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command)

RESON AS, Slangerup, Denmark, contract awarded (terms not provided) to supply the PDS2000 Multibeam 3D Area interactive area editor, which includes the CUBE option and 3D profile box, and upgrades of the client’s PDS2000 single-beam licenses to full PDS2000 multibeam licenses. (Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors bv)

Acergy SA, Sunbury-on-Thames, England, $195 million contract award for offshore installation burial and tie-in of roughly 17 kilometers of eight-inch infield flowlines and umbilicals to four production wells, as well as an acid gas disposal flowline, connecting to a centrally located floating production unit on the Deep Panuke field located offshore Halifax, Canada. Offshore installation by the Acergy Falcon and the Acergy Discovery is scheduled to commence during the second quarter of 2010. (EnCana Corp.)

Bluefin Robotics Corp., Cambridge, Massachusetts, has exercised an option in a previously awarded contract for the Bluefin-9 series of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), with a potential value of $29 million. The contract outlines procurement of AUV systems, support equipment, engineering support and other services. The vehicles are designed to perform very shallow-water mine countermeasures, representatives said. The Bluefin-9, in the SeaLion configuration, will aid explosive ordnance disposal personnel in their duties to detect, localize and classify mines and undersea improvised explosive devices. (U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command, Indian Head Division)

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