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Article: Busy, busy days for Signal International.
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 10, 2005
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PASCAGOULA -- The Signal International shipyards that provide overhaul, repair, upgrade and conversion for offshore oil drilling rigs had plenty of business prior to Katrina due to the high price of oil leading to increased incentives for exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico, says Dick Marler, president and CEO of Signal International.
However, with a large number of rigs damaged as a result of hurricanes in the Gulf this year, even more business should be coming in to the Signal East Facility and West Facility in Mississippi and the company's Orange Yard in Orange, Texas, and Dock Yard in Port Arthur, Texas.
"We were in a good market to ...