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El Paso Natural Gas

Names Don R. Parks

Don R. Parks of Houston has been named regional gas supply manager for El Paso Natural Gas

Company and assigned to the

Houston, Texas, office, the com- pany announced.

Don R. Parks

Mr. Parks was formerly with

Lone Star Gas Company in Dal- las, Tyler, and Houston. He is a member of the Houston Natural

Gas Men, and of the North Texas

Gas Society.

El Paso's recently established gas purchase office in Houston seeks to acquire both offshore and onshore gas supplies in the Gulf

Coast area.

Mr. Parks will be located in the

LNG Tower, 2919 Allen Parkway,

Houston, Texas 77001.

El Paso Natural Gas also has regional gas purchase offices in

Midland, Texas, and Denver, Colo.

J. Ray McDermott & Co.

Elects Eight Officers

C.L. Graves, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., has announced the election of eight officers of the company to positions which reflect their pri- mary functions, and recognize the realignment of duties resulting from the combining of the Mc-

Dermott corporate staff with that of The Babcock & Wilcox Com- pany, a wholly owned subsidiary.

Robert C. Bassett has been elected vice president, Materials & Transportation; Edwin J. Dres- sel has been elected senior vice president, Equipment & Materials

Group, McDermott Operating

Unit; John A. Dupy has been elected vice president, Public Af- fairs; John A. Lynott has been elected vice president, Finance;

Richard E. Woolbert has been elected vice president, Employee

Relations; Charles F. Kraus has been elected controller, Tax Ad- ministration; Edmund A. Robi- doux has been elected controller, and Robert A. Jolliff has been elected treasurer.

Messrs. Bassett, Dupy, Lynott, and Woolbert will report to James

E. Cunningham, vice chairman of the board. Mr. Dressel will report to Robert K. Richie, president,

McDermott Operating Unit.

Messrs. Kraus, Robidoux and Jol- liff will report to Mr. Lynott.

LNG-LPG Conference

Set For Houston, Texas

November 13-16, 1979

The Seventh International Con- ference and Exhibition on LNG and LPG — Gastech 79 — will be held in Houston, Texas, from No- vember 13-16, 1979. In choosing

Houston, the organizers will bring

Gastech to the natural gas capital of America, and the home of the nation's largest petroleum indus- try complex.

The venue will be the modern

Albert Thomas Convention and

Exhibit Center located in the heart of the city's business area and close to the headquarters' hotels — the Hyatt Regency and the Sheraton Houston.

More than 1,200 delegates, who are expected to register for the

Gastech 79 Conference and the associated Exhibition of LNG and

LPG technology, equipment and services, will occupy the 11,000 square meters of exhibit space in the Albert Thomas Center which has ideal facilities for the most ambitious displays.

The content of the Conference program will continue to reflect the organizers' concern with both

LPG and LNG matters—a unique feature of the Gastech meet- ings — and a provisional program is now being prepared for publica- tion early in 1979. Authors wish- ing to contribute papers should contact the Gastech Secretariat, 2 Station Road, Rickmansworth,

Herts WD3 1QP, England.

When Leon Martin sandblasts your ship he gets dynamite results.

Leon is a Leaderman in our

Drydock Department. Which means he has two great qualifications.

He's experienced (27 years at

Savannah). And can be rougher than blasting grit about getting a job done right.

That's the kind of spirit you find at Savannah. It's why we're the best yard to do your major conversions, scheduled drydocking, and voyage repairs.

Sure, we're also competitively priced. And blessed with a climate that lets us run full-bore all year.

But without workers like Leon, our great prices and weather wouldn't mean doodly.

If you want a yard that'll really bust its hump on your job, pick up the phone and give us a blast.

The Savannah Yard.

Savannah Machine and Shipyard.

P.O. Box 787, Savannah, Ga. 31402

Tel. (912) 233-6621 74 Trinity Place, Suite 1800

New York, N.Y. 10006 Tel. (212) 432-0350

He's a good reason to get'blasted'in Savannah.

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