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Delta Delivers 235-Foot Tank

Barge To Cenac Towing, Fifth

Unit Built At New Facility

Delta Shipyard of Houma, La., recently delivered the tank barge CTCO-2602 (shown above) to Cenac Towing Co., Inc., also of

Houma.

Delta designed and fabricated the 235 by 52 by 16-foot single-skin oil cargo barge for unlimited offshore service and built to ABS requirements.

The vessel has a cargo capacity of 26,000 barrels of crude oil cargo. Approximately 550 tons of steel was utilized in the vessel's fabrication. The barge is a sister vessel to

Cenac Towing's CTCO-2601 which was fab- ricated by Delta and delivered in mid-1981.

The new barge is the fifth oil barge con- structed by Delta Shipyard's new construc- tion facility since its inception in 1980. 3. I

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DELIVER SECOND GAS CARRIER — The 5,990-dwt liquified gas carrier Gaz Nordsee was delivered recently by Jos. L. Meyer shipyard Papenburg-Ems, Germany, to

Friedrich A. Detjen GmbH & Co., of Ham- burg. The second of a two-ship order, the

Gaz Nordsee is under charter to Naftomar

Shipping & Trading Ltd. The Germanischer

Lloyd classed ship is powered by a B&W two-stroke diesel engine, model 6L 45GFCA, producing 4,350 kW—5,910 hp—at 175 rpm.

British Shipbuilders Introduces

New Semisub Drilling Rig

The design of an advanced heavy-duty semisubmersible rig, capable of drilling in 4,921 feet of water and intended for world- wide use, has been announced by British

Shipbuilders.

The BS 8000DP series is said to provide very advanced drilling techniques and can sustain itself on station for long periods even under severe arctic conditions.

The hull configuration is designed to min- imize heave motion, to maximize load carry- ing, and to meet all current and proposed safety standards.

The rig, which is said to be economical to operate and maintain, also features a high payload at transit, operating and sur- vival drafts; box-deck structure; below-deck

Artist's view of the new BS 8000DP series rig at sea. storage for casing and drill pipe; and op- tional protected storage for risers.

Full dynamic positioning equipment keeps the rig on station automatically. Physical and environmental data on wind speed, wave height, currents, and vertical reference to the seabed are obtained by sensors. The transponders are located on the ocean floor and retransmit pulses to hydrophones mounted on the ship's hull.

Information from the sensors, which is automatically fed to a computer, is con- verted to commands to the craft's thrusters or variable-pitch propellers which maintain the vessel on location without anchors.

Plant, Munroe Establish

Naval Architectural And

Marine Consulting Firm •P

Thomas G. Plant Jr. Hugh F. Munroe

Thomas G. Plant Jr. and Hugh F. Munroe announced the establishment of Plant and

Munroe, a division of Plant Contractors, Inc.

The firm, headquartered in San Francisco,

Calif., provides naval architectural and ma- rine consulting services throughout the San

Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Basin.

The formation of Plant and Munroe ex- tends an association of two well-known members of the maritime community that began in 1953 when Mr. Plant, then presi- dent of Plant Shipyard Corporation, Ala- meda, Calif., engaged Mr. Munroe as chief naval architect and manager of new con- struction.

Mr. Munroe, who will serve as division manager, has spent more than 30 years in marine engineering, design, and construction.

Following his shipyard experience, Mr.

Munroe served 19 years with American

President Lines. Following that, he served three years as project engineer with the marine projects group of Bechtel Corpo- ration.

In 1978, Mr. Munroe was elected presi- dent of Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., naval architects and marine engineering firm, the position he left recently to concen- trate on the establishment of the new firm.

The Kongsberg group, one of Norway's largest industrial organizations, has in- stalled advanced electronics on board more than 50,000 vessels, advanced ARPA's, in- strumentation and automation aboard more than 800.

This wealth of experience comes from an exceptionally broad background in design, engineering, quality control, manufactur- ing and distribution. Kongsberg has pioneered in development of shipboard systems such as weapons control for the

Norwegian navy, dynamic positioning and maritime training simulators.

ROBERTSON

Steering systems ranging from simple yacht autopilots to the most complex, gyrocompass controlled modular steering stands. The SKR-80 gyrocompass features unique electronic design with servo control to provide extremely short alignment time and minimum error.

NORCONTROL

Navigation, automation, instrumentation and training systems. DataBridge in- cludes collision avoidance, navigational, steering and load calculating systems.

Complete instrumentation for unattended machinery spaces, control alarm systems, tank level and draft gauging systems.

Maritime simulators for maneuvering and navigation, liquid cargo handling and ship propulsion plants. Complete Vessel Traffic

Management systems for harbors and off- shore platforms.

KONGSBERG MARITIME

Supports the offshore petroleum industry, providing a range of horizontal positioning reference and data processing and plotting services. Developed the Albatross series of dynamic positioning systems for virtually any type of offshore vessel and any con- figuration of power and thruster.

This, then, is the Kongsberg group.

Specialists in turning high technology into practical, problem-solving systems for mariners the world over.

Kongsberg North America, Inc.

Maritime Division 135 Fort Lee Road, Leonia, NJ 07605

Telephone 201-947-6788/Telex 135-115 < Write 472 on Reader Service Card 9