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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Coast Diving Service Opens

In Bay Area

By year's end, Hitachi Zosen

Corp. will move its head office administration, business and design departments to the Hitachi

Zosen Nanko Building from the "Ninety Building" at Nishikujo,

Konohana-ku, Osaka.

The Nanko building, currently under construction in the Nanko

Cosmosquare district of Osaka, will also house the Plant &

Machinery Design Office and other departments now located in the

Sakurajima district.

Oceaneering Announces

Major Multiflex Expansion tions will relocate in the summer of 1998 to a larger, waterfront facility in Rosyth, Scotland, that will be purpose-built to serve the

North Sea market.

With available floor space of 130,000 sq. ft., the facility will dou- ble the size of the current plant in

Leith.

This new facility will be equipped to improve the efficiency of manu- facturing long-length thermoplas- tic umbilicals as well as other new products.

A manufacturing facility will be established in Brazil and existing

U.S. facilities will be relocated and modernized. These plants are expected to be ready by the end of 1998.

New product lines including inte- grated service umbilicals and flow- lines of up to four inches in diame- ter for gas and water injection are being evaluated, in addition to the recent introduction of umbilicals incorporating High Collapse

Resistant (HCR) pipes for deepwa- ter applications.

Wikborg, Rein & Co.

Appoints New Lawyers

Wikborg, Rein & Co., the inter- national law firm, has appointed two new lawyers to its London office. Morten Lund Mathisen, a partner and maritime law spe-

In-water ship inspection and repair company Coast Diving

Service, Inc., has announced the opening of its new office in Benicia,

Calif. "We feel that by opening the office in Benicia, we well compli- ment our established business in the Los Angeles/Long Beach

Harbors and enhance our services by keeping the cost to our cus- tomers to a minimum," said com- pany Vice President Gene

Fenton.

Hitachi Zosen Corp. To

Move Head Office

Oceaneering International, Inc. announced plans to more than double the manufacturing capacity of Oceaneering Multiflex, which manufactures hydraulic and elec- trohydraulic umbilicals used to tie back subsea production facilities, blowout preventers, and other underwater equipment to surface control units, and introduce new products over the next two years.

The new capacity should be avail- able for use during the company's fiscal year ending March 2000.

To initiate the expansion, the

Oceaneering Multiflex U.K. opera-

POOL COMPANY

GULF OFFSHORE DIVISION

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Please send your resume to Pool Company, 3640 Peters

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