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PRESS RELEASE
GULFPORT, Miss... Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Halter Marine Group, Inc. (AMEX:HLX) Gulfport, Miss., has been awarded a contract from Kilgore Offshore Inc., Houston, Tex. for the construction of two of Halter's new 205 foot offshore supply vessels and options for two additional identical vessels. Both will be built at Halter Moss Point (Miss.) with delivery of the first vessel planned for August 1998, and the second for November 1998. The vessels , valued at approximately $8 million each, will be managed by Kilgore's Lafayette, La. operations office. Each new supply boat will be 205 feet in length with a 46 foot beam, 17 foot maximum draft and 15 foot normal operating draft. Each will be powered by two Caterpillar 3516 diesel engines developing a total of 4,000 HP. They will drive 92 inch diameter stainless steel propellers through Reintjes reverse/reduction gears. Extra maneuverability will be provided by am SMI bowthruster driven by a 550 HP Caterpillar diesel. Ship's electrical power will come from two Caterpillar driven generators producing 250Kw of electrical power. Each boat will be equipped with four liquid mud tanks with a total capacity of 3,248 barrels and five Halter built Pnu-Tanks (formerly Smatco) dry mud tanks with a total capacity of 8,425 cubic feet. Their aft decks will have over 5,000 square feet of clear deck space with a load capacity of 540 pounds per square foot. Below decks, each will be able to carry 121,00 gallons of fuel, 1,000 gallons of oil and 34,000 gallons for potable water. A partial list of navigation and communications equipment includes: an autopilot; depth recorder; two radars; magnetic compass; GPS; gyrocompass; two VHF radios and an SSB radio. The pilothouse, quarters for eight and galley and dining facilities for 16 will be cooled by 12 tons of Carrier air conditioning. The galley will also have a built-in walk-in freezer and cooler along with the usual kitchen equipment. The boats will be U. S. Coast Guard certified and will carry an American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) loadline, and will be classed ABS, Maltese Cross Alt. AMS. Halter Marine Group, Inc. includes 20 shipyards in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. The company specializes in the design, construction, conversion and repair of a wide variety of vessels and mobile offshore rigs for commercial, government and pleasure boat markets. Shipyards of Halter Marine have built more than 2,000 vessels in the past 40 years.
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