Marine News, June 2005

<BODY> <div> Donjon Assists USS America Tow Donjon Marine Co., a provider of multi-faceted marine services including marine salvage, ocean and inland towing, emergency response, and dredging, pro- vided towing and logistical support through its U.S. Navy Salvage and Relat- ed services contract, in the towing out to sea of the Navy's USS America, the third Kitty Hawk-class attack aircraft carrier on April 19. The Navy will conduct tests on the carrier, commissioned in 1965, for a number of weeks and then the ship will be sunk. Donjon coordinated the movement of the USS America from its lay berth locat- ed in the Philadelphia Naval Yard, through the Delaware River to the open ocean where the vessel was towed by Donjon's 7,000-hp Atlantic Salvor and 8,000-hp Powhatan to the Project site. Rowan Wins Rig Contract Rowan Companies, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary, LeTourneau, Inc., won a contract from Perforadora Central, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican drilling contractor, to construct a Super 116E class jack-up rig. The rig will be an enhanced version of LeTourneau's Super 116-C class jack-up rig, with greater environ- mental and payload capacity. It will have 511 ft. of leg, enabling operations in water depths up to 350 ft. in areas like the Gulf of Mexico, Asia and the Persian Gulf. Construction of the rig will begin imme- 10 • MarineNews • June, 2005 From our beginnings as builders of small commercial ships to our major expansion into multi-port shipbuilding, ship repair and ship conversion facilities, Atlantic Marine has evolved as one of the world’s most highly regard- ed names in marine construction. The reason behind our success is performance – the Atlantic Marine tradition of delivering quality work, competitive pricing and on time delivery. Call us when it absolutely, positively must be done right and delivered on time. Two New Construction Yards Two Repair Yards Gulf Coast and East Coast Locations Full Service Shipyards New Construction Repair and Conversions Atlantic Marine, Inc. Atlantic Dry Dock Corp. 8500 Heckscher Drive Jacksonville, FL 32226 (904) 251-1545 Atlantic Marine - Mobile Alabama Shipyard Pinto Island, Box 3202 Mobile, AL 36601 (251) 690-7100 www.atlanticmarine.com HORNBECK'S OSV HOS CROSSFIRE built at Atlantic Marine, Inc. Jacksonville, FL CROWLEY BARGE 450-10 converted at Atlantic Dry Dock, Corp. Jacksonville, FL ALLIED TRANSPORTATION'S ATB UNIT SEA HAWK AND ATC 21 built at Alabama Shipyard Mobile, AL ATWOOD OCEANIC'S ATWOOD HUNTER undergoing conversion at Atlantic Marine-Mobile Mobile, AL Build. Repair. Convert. Circle 203 on Reader Service Card NEWS StratosMAX: Better Broadband Wireless in GOM Stratos Global Corp. launched StratosMAX, a new broadband wireless access (BWA) network that maximizes the performance, flexibility and scalabil- ity of remote voice and data communi- cations in the Gulf of Mexico. Accord- ing to the company, four offshore energy companies operating in the GOM have signed up for StratosMAX, which lever- ages the latest developments in WiMAX broadband wireless technology with Stratos' network backbone infrastruc- ture. StratosMAX is designed to provide offshore drilling and production compa- nies with a secure and reliable platform for delivering up to 2 Mbps of capacity to support a full range of IP-based data applications, as well as multiple voice lines for telephone connectivity. "StratosMAX is a revolutionary step forward in remote communications tech- nology for the offshore drilling and pro- duction industry in the Gulf of Mexico," said Jim Parm, Stratos' president and CEO. "By combining the wireless capa- bilities of WiMAX with the unmatched capacity of Stratos' backbone network, StratosMAX provides a truly latency- free voice and data communications ser- vice that is easily and affordably deploy- able to offshore platforms. Circle 2 on Reader Service Card JUNEMN2005 2(9-16).qxd 5/25/2005 5:24 PM Page 10 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>