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Rudolph Matzer Designs 100-Foot Tug For Coppedge

Rudolph F. Matzer & Associates, Inc. has been commissioned by W.T. Coppedge Jr.,

Florida Towing Company, Inc., to design a new tugboat suitable for operation as both a harbor tug and full ocean towing.

The vessel, measuring 100 feet by 30 feet by 16 feet 6 inches, is being constructed by Atlantic Marine, Inc., Fort George Island,

Fla.

Tony Watt, project manager for W.T. Cop- pedge, says an application for Title XI insur- ance has been made for the construction of the vessel.

According to Ronald L. Hutchinson of

Rudolph F. Matzer & Associates, the vessel is being designed for classification by Amer- ican Bureau of Shipping for unrestricted ocean service + A-l E AMS towing service.

The vessel, which is scheduled for delivery

March 1975, will be placed in service at the

Port of Jacksonville, Fla.

United States Navigation

Names Slizewski Treasurer

A.J. Slizewski has been named treasurer of United States Navigation, Inc., 17 Battery

Place, New York, N.Y. 10004.

Mr. Slizewski succeeds H.D. Huss, who retired from the company August 31 after 25 years' service. Mr. Huss will continue to serve the agency as a consultant through the end of the year. Mr. Slizewski joined the company in 1969, having previously been associated with Texaco Inc.

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Biggest Oil And Gas Discovery

In Norwegian North Sea Sector

The discovery of the biggest oil and gas field yet uncovered in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea has been confirmed by Nor- way's Ministry of Industry.

Norway's state-owned oil firm, Statoil, has a 50 percent interest in the field, Mobil Oil

Corporation's Norwegian unit has 15 per- cent while Exxon, Continental Oil and the

Royal Dutch-Shell group each hold a 10 per- cent interest.

The Ministry said the field, to be called the "Statfjord," contains reserves of at least two-billion barrels of oil and 60-billion cubic meters of natural gas. The field is adjacent to the British Brent Field and may extend into British waters.

If so, the two countries and the companies involved will discuss the feasibility of unified production from the entire field, a spokes- man for the Norwegian Embassy said in

London.

The latest of three wells in the area, which covers two concessions, flowed oil in rates of between 10,000 and 12,000 barrels a day from various intervals and with varying choke openings, the Ministry said.

SHIPSIDE FREEZER: Chairman of the

Federal Maritime Commission Helen Delich

Bentley snips ribbon to officially dedicate the largest and most advanced shipside re- frigerated facility in the world at Port New- ark. With her are, left to right, Thomas W.

Gleason, president of the International Long- shoremen's Association; Thomas D. Lom- bard, general manager of Reefer Terminals,

Inc., owners of the freezer transit terminal, and A. Gerdes Kuhbach, executive director of The Port Authority of New York and

New Jersey, at whose Port Newark facilities the new plant is located. The new facility, designed to receive and deliver frozen meats and other frozen commodities in transit through the New York-New Jersey port area to commercial processors, is capable of re- ceiving palletized breakbulk cargo from three ships simultaneously. It provides space for 3,800 tons of frozen meat and includes the most modern U.S. Department of Agricul- ture defrosting and inspection facilities.

Also, a computerized cargo location control system permits the loading of trailers with unitized pallet loads at the rate of 15 tons in 20 minutes. Refrigerated Express Lines and Reefer Express Lines are the first ocean carriers to use the new facility, although any carrier can utilize the terminal. ii4 Maritime ?eoor+er / Engineering News