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- Providing services to the Power and Communication Industries
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- Submarine cable embedment
- Multi-duct installations
- Marine electronic surveys
- Directional drilling
- Environmentally sensitive areas
- Fiber blowing services
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- AQUA-TERRA II is a multipurpose tow sled used to support an embedment
injector (pump and jetting swords) or deep burial jetting tools to carry
out shore end work.
- Jetting systems recently used in the year 2000 at Lake Pontchartrain,
Louisiana. AT&T, PF.Net and
Velocita—5.3 miles.
- AQUA-TERRA II main characteristics:
- Length 9M
- Weight 11 tons in air
- Trench depth 3.65M
- Trench width 15.2 cm
- Injector 3.65M @ 45 degrees
- Width 4.5M
- Power on jetting pump 400 hp
- Volume 3000 gpm
- Hydraulics @ 3500 psi – biodegradable canola seed oil
- Turbidity containment within pontoons
- For more information please visit us at:
- WWW.AQUA-TERRA.NET
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- Back Bay Biloxi embedment (marine)
- Bay St. Louis embedment (marine)
- Lake Pontchartrain embedment (marine)
- Bonnet Carre spillway embedment (wet lands)
- Pascagoula I-10 embedment (marsh)
- Bay Biloxi cable removal (marine)
- Shell Oil (marine)
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- Multi-duct installation
- Seven mile crossing
- Completed in 11 working days
- Fiber installation
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- Multi-duct installation
- Three mile crossing
- Environmentally sensitive area
- Fiber installation
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- Multi-duct installation
- Close proximity to existing live cable
- Two rivers and one major bayou
- Three mile crossing
- Environmentally sensitive area
- Fiber installation
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- Digital depth recordings
- Side scan sonar imaging
- Magnetometer data acquisition
- DGPS positioning
- 2D / 3D mapping and graphics
- Underwater cable location and mapping
- Trimble HydroPro software
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- Serving the offshore industry
- Providing installation for oil platforms
- Connecting platform to platform
- Bringing the oil industry into the 21st Century
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- *TO REMAIN ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY
- *REALISTIC SURVEY ASSESSMENTS
- *ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
- *PROTECTION AND LONGEVITY
- *ACCURATE SCHEDULING—ON TIME BUDGET
- *SYNCHRONIZATION WITHIN OUR OPERATION
- *ASSERTIVENESS
- *FAIRNESS AND HONESTY
- *COMMITTED TO SAFETY
- *NO COMPROMISE—WE WORK FOR YOU
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- SHELL OIL EXPLORATION
- DUKE POWER CORPORATION
- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
- CATV
- BAY ST. LOUIS CROSSING
- LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN CROSSING
- CANAL ROAD
- MISSISSIPPI POWER
- BLACK’S ISLAND
- BONNE CARRIE
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- At Aqua-Terra our goal is to
provide water and shore end crossing installations by embedment,
directional drilling, or bridge attachment. To those who are faced with the critical
factors involved with a particular stretch of water in these paths.
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- DIRECTIONAL DRILLING
- SUBMARINE CABLE EMBEDMENT
- PIPELINE AND CABLE ROUTES LOCATIONS
- SUBMERGED OBSTRUCTION LOCATION
- SALVAGE OPERATIONS
- ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS
- PRE-MARINE SURVEYS
- DIGITAL DEPTH RECORDING
- SIDE SCAN SONAR IMAGING
- DGPS POSITIONING
- 2D AND 3D MAPPING/GRAPHICS
- DATA INTERPRETATION BY TOP GEOPHYSICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATES
- MULTIPLE DUCT INSTALLATION
- BRIDGE ATTACHMENTS
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- One platform in Mobile Bay belonging to Shell Oil where Aqua-Terra has
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- Submarine cable industry in an extended slump
- Energy industry can provide stimulus with its extensive building of
pipelines and power cables
- Discovery of extensive new oil and gas fields bring hope of economic
growth
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- Telecom industry has potential benefits for boom in energy spending.
- Specialized companies in marine services quickly adapt to submarine
pipeline and power cable projects
- Energy projects provide an opportunity to piggyback telecom projects
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- Many energy companies add fiber optic cable for their own internal use
when building energy infrastructures
- Many power companies through the world became domestic carriers this way
- International energy projects lagged behind in this trend
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- West Africa has the potential for developing telecom infrastructure
projects
- Nigeria—Nigerian power authority joint venturing with a South African
company, installing 5,000 km of fiber optic cable along its power lines
- Second international telecom infrastructure perhaps within reach
- Another pipeline project offers opportunity for a landlocked Chad
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- A region of great importance, but it is worth noting that Africa and the
Pacific are not far behind. The
need to move fuel to urban areas in the Pacific (Japan, South Korea and
parts of China) is a significant factor in pipeline development.
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- Pipelines are the first new venture opportunities to arise in a country
plagued by war or unrest—generate hard foreign currency
- Pipelines moving forward in Chad and Macedonia
- Renewed talk of a pipeline across Afghanistan
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- “Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications’ (VNPT’s) planned festoon along
Vietnam’s coast is progressing.
The $160 million project is now funded, with Japan’s Official
Development Agency (ODA) contributing 75% and VNPT the remained. An international tender for suppliers
will be released next year (2004).”
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- Neptune Project--Phase One, permits 3rd quarter, 2003
- National Grid--Boston-Nantucket, permits Fall 2003
- Entergy N.O.--N.O. MS River, Fall 2003
- Gulf Power--Panama City, Engineering 2003
- Orbis Corp--Ecuador, 2004
- Florida Teleport--Delray Beach, October 2003
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- Florida Power and Light—FL maintenance contract
- Winergy LLC—Nantucket (fix tower)
- PSEG Power—Cross Hudson Project
- NSW—St. Martin, Caribbean (bore)
- IT International—Bahamas
- Dubai Service Contract (United Arab Emirates
Telecommunications)—Communication cable
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- IT International Telecom Inc. and IT International Telecom Ltd. (UK),
business units of General Dynamics Network Systems were acquired by
Canadian investors
- IT International Telecom Inc.—an engineering and installation firm
providing technical solutions to the telecom and power industries
worldwide.
- IT is based in Montreal Canada with offices in North America and Europe
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- Office of International Telecom Group in Toms River, New Jersey, has
been sold. Now under the name of
Caldwell Marine International.
- Caldwell Marine specializes in the marine utility field including:
- Submarine Cable (power and telecom)
- Submarine Pipeline
- Ocean and bay utility outfalls
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- Caribbean Crossing, Ltd, wholly owned subsidiary of Cable Bahamas Ltd
owns and operates undersea fiber optic cable system linking four of the
major islands of the Bahamas
- IT International Telecom awarded contract to supply high capacity cable
between Bahamas and continental USA
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- Launches Gridcom, a new U.S. telecommunications infrastructure focused
on Northeast region
- Gridcom will build and own wireless communication towers, acquire
existing tower assets, and help wireless phone providers locate their
network equipment
- Gridcom managing NEESCom
- NEESCom provides dark fiber optic capacity
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- Federal regulators gave preliminary approval to a project to build a
natural gas pipeline from the Bahamas to South Florida
- Tractebel North America Inc.’s Calypso proposal would construct a
90-mile pipeline from Freeport into Port Everglades
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted in favor of the proposal “in
principal,” recognizing there’s a need for this project
- Approved same step for AES Corp’s pipeline from Ocean Cay to Dania Beach
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- State of Florida wants to tighten restrictions on submarine cable
landings in the state
- State Cabinet approved preliminary request to channel future cables
through five designated gaps in reefs
- Proposal includes new fees for new lines in environmentally sensitive
areas
- Under new proposal industry would be one-time application fee of $15,000
and $5.06 per linear foot
- Proposal must be revised after public hearings and then considered by
the State Cabinet for implementation
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