text: Mermaid has purchased a very large cyclone rated industrial building 
  
  
  
  frame which will be sited beside the slipway and tenanted by Mermaid 
  
  engineering and companies which will provide ancillary services 
  
  related to ship repair. 
  
  ***The Northwest Shelf is a***
  ***world scale offshore oil and***
  ***gas exploration province.***