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STATOIL AWARDS VESLEFRIKK OIL FIELD CONTRACTS
    LONDON, Oct 19 - Norwegian state oil company Den Norske
Stats Oljeselskap (Statoil) signed contracts worth a total of
1.5 billion Norwegian crowns in connection with the development
of the Veslefrikk oil field, Statoil said.
    Moss Rosenberg Verft of Stavanger has been awarded a
contract to convert the the drilling platform West Vision to a
floating production platform. The work is to be completed in
the summer of 1989.
    Aker Verdal has been awarded a contract for the
engineering, purchasing and construction of the steel jacket
for the wellhead platform, also to be completed in 1989,
Statoil said.