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ON THE COVER

Offshore rig on location in the Norwegian

North Sea. Photo courtesy of Tenneco, Inc.;

Inset: USS Hercules (PHM-2), patrol comba- tant missileship, built by Boeing Marine.

COVER DESIGN: Alex Brown/Artwork Pro- duction

INSIDE

Preview of the Offshore

Technology Conference 22

Balancing the National

Energy Strategy 30

Shipbuilding Surge Predicted

For 90s 38

Preview of ASNE Day '91:

Naval Engineering in the

Changing Defense

Structure 42

Iowa Class Battleships:

Effectiveness In Gulf War

To Be Evaluated 50

MSRC: Best Effort Response

To Cleaning Up Oil Spills 76

NORSHIPCO Receives $31.6 Million Contract

For Cruiser Overhaul

Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock

Corporation (NORSHIPCO) of

Norfolk, Va., was recently awarded a $31,602,521 firm-fixed-price-with- performance-fee contract by the

Naval Sea Systems Command for the regular overhaul of the cruiser

USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27). The work is expected to be completed in

June 1992.

Evergreen Signs Lease

With Port Of Tacoma

Taiwan's Evergreen Line recently signed a $1.2 million per year lease with the Port of Tacoma that would move the shipping line's Puget

Sound operations from Seattle to

Tacoma.

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