Seventy-five representatives from almost 50 Project oxygen (Hamilton, Bermuda) landing parties met in Barcelona to finalize landing party agreements for the construction of the oxygen Network. Agreements for nearly two-thirds of the 99 landing points in the full first phase of the network were either signed or ready for final approval by the landing parties` management. The first phase of the network, a 25,644-km Atlantic ring, is scheduled to begin operations in late 2000.