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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

BMI Announces New COO

Daniel H. Romanchuk has been appointed COO for Baltimore

Marine Industries, Inc. (BMI). Mr.

Romanchuk had previously served as the Operations VP for Hopeman

Bros., as well as the Production

Manager and Administrative

Manager for BethShip. "His arrival is particularly well timed to coincide with our entry into the barge construction market as a complement to our ship repair and overhaul business," said the

President and CEO of BMI, David

Watson.

Kvaerner Installs Autoship

Systems Company-Wide

Kvaerner-Polar Design of

Vancouver, BC, is the most recent of the company's offices to pur- chase and install the Autoship

Systems for hull design (Autoship), intact and damage stability (Autohydro), and plate expansion (Autoplate). The systems have also been installed in eight other

Kvaerner offices throughout

Norway, Finland, and England.

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Chevron And ARCO Agree

On Alaskan Oil Exploration

Chevron U.S.A., Inc. and ARCO

Alaska, Inc. have signed two agreements which provide equal ownership of recently acquired leases for the North Slope of

Alaska. The first agreement con- cerns leases acquired by the com- panies during Lease Sale 87, the state's first area-wide lease sale.

Chevron and ARCO will each own 50 percent interest in 35 tracts of approximately 200,000 total gross acres located southwest of the

Kuparuk and Alpine oil fields. The second agreement gives the com- panies 50 percent interest in 16 tracts of approximately 196,000 offshore acres north of the Prudhoe

Bay oil field in the Beaufort Sea.

Olympic Tug & Barge

Receives New Parent Co.

Harley Marine Services of

Seattle, Wa., has become the new parent company for Olympic Tug &

Barge, Pacific Coast Maritime, and

Westoil Marine Services. As part of the new corporate structure,

Vince Godfrey has been named president/CEO of Olympic Tug &

Barge, with Captain Rod

September, 1998

Gullickson as vice president/gen- eral manager. Todd Prophet has been promoted to vice president and CFO of Harley Marine

Services, and is joined by Captain

Russ Johnson as operations ser- vices manager, and George Clark as manager of safety, regulatory and environmental affairs. The new general managers of Pacific

Coast Maritime and Westoil

Marine Services are Don Meberg and Walt Partika respectively.

New VP For Bachrach,

Wood, Peters & Associates

Bachrach, Wood, Peters &

Associates, Inc. has announced the appointment of Steven Bahnsen to vice president, Morgan City

Operations in an effort to take advantage of the growing oilfield activities in central La., as well as to de-centralize operations from the company's corporate headquar- ters in Metairie.

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Contact us for a copy of our "Inland River Guide."

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