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Kvaerner Masa-Yards

Installs CAD System

From Computervision Corp.

Finland's largest shipbuilder,

Kvaerner Masa-Yards, Inc., of the

Norwegian Kvaerner Group, is in- stalling a new $1.1 million com- puter-aided design (CAD) system provided by Computervision Cor- poration of Bedford, Mass.

The basic software, called Medusa, will be adapted for shipbuilding de- sign, and Kvaerner expects to mar- ket the resulting shipbuilding CAD program to other shipbuilders.

Kobelfs Satellite Controller

Permits Remote Steering

Kobelt Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,

Richmond, B.C., has introduced a new remote steering controller which allows a captain to steer his vessel from anywhere on board.

Kobelt's Satellite Controller model #7168 is an electrical unit which hooks up to the ship's hydrau- lic steering system. Throttle levers control one or two main engines. A rotary dial directing rudder position and bowthruster controls can be in- tegrated into the unit. The device can also be equipped with indicator lights, push buttons or toggle

Shipboard Furniture

The Computer Desk from EDP houses your computer and all its components entirely within the desk providing a safe, comfortable viewing angle.

This new line of furniture from EDP per- mits marine personnel to have the same high quality furniture used in offices ashore.

Designed and built to be completly safe for shipboard use, EDP offers a full-line of shipboard products including Computer Desks, TV/VCR Cabinets, Multi-Media

Storage Cabinets as well as other spe- cialized cabinetry and custom products designed to your specifications.

EDP Shipboard Furniture is approved for use aboard U.S. Navy ships by NAVSSES and is currently being used aboard ships world-wide.

EDP Shipboard Products are distributed through Wright Computer Products Inc., a business committed to bringing you state-of-the-art equipment and reliable service for all your shipboard needs.

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The Satellite Controller is li weight and easily portable. A st der strap allows it to be worn c fortably around the neck like a c era. Constructed entirely of brc and stainless steel, the unit is reported to be totally sealed to vent damaging moisture from tering.

Caird & Rayner Clark

Offers Flash Evaporators

For Cruise Ships

Caird & Rayner Clark Ltd.

England has designed and mai factured desalination systems over 100 years. The company off( the complete freshwater packa required for a modern cruise st comprising multi-stage flash ai reverse osmosis desalination uni together with water treatme; equipment for neutralization, mi eralization and sterilization.

The fresh water generators c fered by the company have bee installed on two new cruise ship built at Chantiers de l'Atlantiqui

Saint Nazaire, France, for Kloste

Cruise Limited. Each ship is fitte with two, 280-ton/day, six-stag flash evaporators and one, 150 tor. day triple effect evaporator, all uti lizing engine jacket cooling water a the main source of heat, boosted b; steam to compensate for low-loac conditions of the engines.

Effer Offers New Range

Of Marine Cranes

Effer Cranes Marine Division, a major producer of marine cranes has introduced a new range of stiff boom marine cranes.

The new cranes will have lifting capacities from 20 tons up to 500 tons, with a maximum outreach of 52.5 feet. The cranes can be built to meet the most extensive require- ments of the customer at a price which is reported to be substantially lower than the knuckleboom crane range.

Murphy Oil Acquires

Interest In Oil Project

Murphy Oil Corporation has an- nounced that its Canadian subsid- iary, Murphy Atlantic Offshore Oil

Company Ltd., has completed the previously announced acquisition of a 6.5 percent interest in the Hibernia

Oil Development Project, offshore

Newfoundland.

Recoverable reserves from the field are estimated to be in excess of half a billion barrels of oil, with first production planned for mid-1997 and peak production of 125,000 barrels per day in 1999. The estimated share of remaining development costs for the company's interest is $226.6 million, and the transaction includes a financial package offered by the government consisting of guaranteed loans and grants.

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