Offshore staff

NETHERLANDS -- Sweden's Allseas Group S.A. has contracted dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster to construct a trench for pipelines to a gas field in the Bay of Bengal. The gas field is being developed by Reliance Energy to supply gas to an onshore terminal near the city of Kakinada.

The project will be carried out in a joint venture with dredging company Dredging International NV. Work will begin in Sept. 2007 and is to be completed by June 2008.

The project includes digging a trench 18 m (59 ft) wide and 21 km (13 mi) long to position nine pipelines that will pass through the Godavari River for the mainland connection of the offshore field.

Boskalis' part of the project includes dredging the trench in the sea and riverbeds and backfilling the trench with sand and rock. The project will require deployment of a large cutter suction dredger and three trailing suction hoppers.

2/262/2007