Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (NASDAQ: GIFI),
announced today that, through its subsidiary Gulf Island L.L.C., it has
signed a contract for the fabrication of five (5) Jacket/Piles for the
Block Island Wind Farm, a shallow water Wind Turbine project located in
the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rhode Island being developed by Deepwater
Wind.
Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc., based in Houma, Louisiana, is a leading
fabricator of offshore drilling and production platforms, hull and/or deck
sections of floating production platforms and other specialized structures
used in the development and production of offshore oil and gas reserves.
These structures include
jackets and deck sections of fixed production
platforms; hull and/or deck sections of floating production platforms (such
as tension leg platforms (“TLPs”), “SPARs”, “FPSOs” and “MinDOCs”),
piles, wellhead protectors, subsea templates and various production, compressor
and utility modules, offshore living quarters, towboats, liftboats, offshore
supply vessels, dry docks, tanks and barges.
The Company also provides offshore interconnect
pipe hook-up, inshore marine construction, manufacture and repair of pressure
vessels, heavy lifts such as ship integration and TLP module integration,
loading and offloading of jack-up drilling rigs, semi-submersible drilling
rigs, TLPs, SPARs, or other similar cargo, onshore and offshore scaffolding,
piping insulation services, and steel warehousing and sales.
