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Brown & Root Awarded

Feasibility Study Contract

For Chevron Offshore Unit

Brown & Root International, Inc. has been awarded a contract for engineering feasibility studies re- lated to the development of Chev- ron U.S.A. Inc.'s Rocky Point Unit drilling and production platform offshore California.

Chevron and partners Phillips

Petroleum and Champlin Oil are considering installation of a fixed platform in 300 feet of water off- shore Point Arguello. The platform would be designed to support drill- ing and production of oil and gas.

Brown & Root will perform the conceptual studies from its engi- neering office at San Ramon, Calif.

As the home of Brown & Root's

West Coast design operations, the

San Ramon facility also serves as the base for power generation, pe- troleum and chemical, and other land-based industrial engineering services.

Brown & Root International is a subsidiary of Brown & Root, Inc. of

Houston, a Halliburton company.

Congressional Maritime

Caucus Establishes

An Advisory Board

The Congressional Maritime Cau- cus has created an Advisory Board made up of industry and Executive

Branch leaders to prepare an "ac- tion plan" aimed at stimulating leg- islative and regulatory initiatives to revitalize the American merchant marine.

The Caucus, consisting of 72 members of the House of Represen- tatives, was formed earlier this year and is headed by Rep. Walter B.

Jones, chairman of the Merchant

Marine and Fisheries Committee.

Vice chairmen are Rep. Glenn M.

Anderson and Rep. William

Carney. Influential members of the Caucus include House Speaker

Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr.;

Majority Leader James C.

Wright; and Minority Whip Trent

Lott.

The 15 industry officials invited to serve on the Advisory Board are:

Joseph F. Abely Jr., chairman and CEO, Sea-Land Corporation;

W. James Amoss Jr., president and CEO, Lykes Bros. Steamship

Company; J. Ronald Brinson, president, American Association of

Port Authorities; Jesse M. Cal- hoon, president, National Marine

Engineers Beneficial Association;

John C. Couch, president, Matson

Navigation Company; Thomas B.

Crowley, president, Crowley Mari- time Corporation; Frank Drozak, president, Seafarers International

Union; Conrad Everhard, chair- man, Dart Orient Services; Rob- ert J. Frulla, president, Freight

Forwarders Institute; D. Ward

Fuller, president and CEO, Ameri- can Steamship Company; John T.

Gilbride, chairman, Todd Ship- yards Corporation; Brian Harri- son, president, Metropolitan Steve- dore Company; Raymond M.

McKay, president, Marine Engi- neers Beneficial Association, Dis- trict II: W. Bruce Seaton, presi- dent and CEO, American President

Lines; and Martin Seham, Se- ham, Klein & Zelman.

Five other individuals have been invited to participate as observers, to "contribute a sense of purpose on behalf of the U.S. merchant ma- rine." They are:

Herbert Brand, chairman,

Board of Trustees, Transportation

Institute; Elizabeth F. Jones, edi- tor, News Briefs; Drew Lewis, chairman, Warner Amex and former

Secretary of Transportation;

George H. Miller, USN (Ret.),

Transportation Institute; and

Emanuel Rouvelas, Preston,

Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman.

The leaders of the various indus- try segments are to draft a proposed national maritime policy "as it would apply to that segment" for presentation at a meeting of all Ad- visory Board members and observ- ers on November 13, 1985. The pro- posals are to be reviewed so that by

February 13, 1986 at a meeting of

Administration officials, industry advisers and the observers, the pro- posals can be merged into a "work- ing national maritime policy pro- posal" that can be presented to the

Congressional Maritime Caucus. Fi- nalized proposals are scheduled to be taken to the Caucus on March 4, 1986 for its consideration.

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