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U.S.A. Representative:

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Offshore Drilling Platform —Largest Sea Structure

Ever Installed From Barge

The Ocean Engineering Department of

Lloyd's Register has just completed a check on structural analysis, fatigue calculations, piling analysis and launch analysis for the drilling/production platform "A" ordered by

Occidental of Britain Inc. for installation at their North Sea Piper Field.

In addition, Lloyd's Register Industrial

Services is inspecting steelwork for the plat- form during manufacture in Japan, Federal

Germany and France and surveying site fabrication and assembly at two main sites in Scotland and France.

The platform jacket is of tubular steel lattice construction with four main legs. It measures 500 feet in height by 200 feet square at the base. When the platform is floated out to the Piper Field on a flat- bottomed barge, it will be the largest sea structure ever installed in this manner.

The construction of this platform is an international operation.

The key role of assembling the parts for the platform is being carried out at the

Ardersier, Scotland, site of McDermott (Scotland) who are fabricating and erect- ing the lower 220 feet of the platform, in- cluding sections shipped from Japan. They will also complete the attachment of the upper 280-foot section of the platform when this is received from France, and will load out the completed 12,500-ton platform jack- et later this year for installation in 474 feet of water.

Dr. Potter Named

Navy Under Secretary

President Nixon has named Dr. David S.

Potter to the post of Navy Under Secretary, succeeding J. William Middendorf II who has been installed as Navy Secretary.

Dr. Potter has been serving as Assistant

Navy Secretary (Research and Development) since September 1973. Previously, he was director of research, General Motors Detroit

Diesel Allison Division, Indianapolis, Ind.

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