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Santa Fe International

Signs $50-Million

Pipelaying Contract

Santa Fe International Corp.,

Orange, Calif., has signed a con- tract with Phillips Petroleum Com- pany Norway (acting for a com- pany owned by the Government of

Norway and the Phillips Norway

Group) to lay 120 miles of a 36- inch gas pipeline in the North Sea next year.

Edfred L. Shannon Jr., Santa

Fe president, said the contract pro- vides for Santa Fe to lay approxi- mately one-half of the total length of the line which will deliver natu- ral gas from Ekofisk Field to an onshore terminal near Emden, Ger- many. He said the contract is ex- pected to produce revenues to

Santa Fe in excess of $50 million.

Mr. Shannon said the line will be the largest diameter line yet laid in the North Sea. Santa Fe presently is one of three con- tractors laying the 34-inch crude- oil line from Ekofisk to Teesside,

England, currently the largest line in the North Sea.

Santa Fe's gas line contract cov-

JacnziJet PROVIDES LOW SPEED ADVANTAGES

CONVENTIONAL PROPULSION SYSTEMS

At low speeds a JacuzziJet powered craft has exceptional maneuverability. The boat is always in complete control and is able to be turned withjn its own length, making it easy to navigate in tight waters.

Because jet propulsion is torque-free, there is no tendency for even single engine boats to "walk" to one side or the other. And, "twisting" is not required on boats with twin jets. Since JacuzziJet is a direct drive system, it does not utilize a transmission. By simply raising or lowering the reverse gate the conversion from forward to reverse is smooth and effortless.

Efficient turning in either forward or reverse is accomplished by deflecting the jet stream to the right, left or center.

A rudder is not necessary since the steering deflector and jet stream direct the thrust.

JacuzziJet thrust provides better low speed maneuverability than conventional propulsion systems.

Try a JacuzziJet powered boat, and you'll see it's true.

JACUZZI BROS. INC. / 11511 New Benton Highway / Little Rock, Arkansas 72203 ers two 60-mile segments, one of which will be laid by the Choctaw

I, the semi submersible derrick and pipelaying barge currently working on the crude-oil line. The other will be laid by the Choctaw II, a new semisubmersible nearing

Completion in Hamburg, Germany.

Santa Fe's Cherokee, currently being used to bury the Ekofisk crude line, will be employed tq bury both Santa Fe sections of the gas line.

Mr. Shannon said all three ma- jor pieces of equipment are sched- uled to begin work next April 1.

The two San'ta Fe segments, Mr.

Shannon said, are the farthest sea- ward, beginning in Ekofisk Field in

Norwegian waters and passing through Danish waters to a half- way point off Germany.

The Phillips Norway Group in- cludes Phillips as operator, Petro- fina, Agip, Norsk Hydro, Elf, To- tal, Aquitaine, and other French interests.

John A. Potts Elected

New MO AC President

John A. Potts

John A. Potts was elected presi- dent and a director of Marine Of- fice - Appleton & Cox Corp. (MOAC) at a recent board meet- ing held in New York, N.Y. The announcement was made by MO-

AC chairman John B. Ricker.

A native of Montreal, Mr. Potts had been executive vice president of MOAC. He joined the firm in 1954 as manager of MOiAIC's Ca- nadian Department at Toronto. He advanced to resident vice presi- dent there in 1959, transferring to

San Francisco, Calif., in the same capacity seven years later. In 1970,

Mr. Potts was named vice presi- dent and manager at Dallas, Texas, and moved to New York the fol- lowing year as senior vice presi- dent. In 1972, he was appointed executive vice president of MO'AIC.

As president, Mr. Potts will as- sume additional duties in areas of

MOAC operations that previously had been the responsibility of the joint office of chairman and presi- dent held by Mr. Ricker since 1971.

Mr. Potts is a member of the

American Institute of Marine Un- derwriters, the National Cargo Bu- reau, and a director of the United

States Salvage Association. He is past president of the Canadian

Board of Marine Underwriters, and past director of the San Francisco

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