§ Mr. Douglasasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the companies known to him to be capable of building for the North Sea concrete, steel and composite steel and
Contractor Designer (1) Steel: Highland Fabricators … Brown and Root (U.S.)* J. Ray McDermott … Own design* Laing Pipelines Offshore … Brown and Root (U.S.)* RDL North Sea … Shell Group* (2) Concrete: Costain … Sir William Halcrow Howard Doris … C. G. Doris (France)* Kier … Ove Arup Peter Lind … Lind with Campenon Bernard (France) Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons … Seatank (France) Mowlem … Hoyer Ellefsen, Selmer, Aker (Norway)* Taylor Woodrow … Own design (3) Composite steel and concrete: Andoc … Andoc with Earl & Wright (U.S.) Brown and Root/Wimpey/Christiani Nielsen … Own design Chicago Bridge … Own design RDL North Sea … Interconsult (Italy) Technomare (Italy) The firms listed as designers are those responsible for the designs currently being offered or built by the contractors concerned, whose capability is not, however, necessarily limited to those designs. The only designs for which orders have so far been placed are those of the firms asterisked. The list does not include overseas constructors building outside the United Kingdom.