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on February 15, 1980Conoco Inc., Houston, Texas, recently announced plans for a new type of drilling and production platform capable of operating in 2,000-foot waters, twice as deep as the previous record. The company expects the new platform to be operating in the North Sea in four years. The first unit could
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on February 15, 1980A hose safety breakaway coupling designed to avert the danger of broken hoses and reduce the risk of pollution, will be shown for the first time in the United States at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, May 5-8, 1980. The hose safety breakaway coupling is a deliberately
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on February 15, 1980The quarterly meeting of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Southern New England Section, was held recently in New London, Conn. Capt. Don Kern, USN (ret.), chairman of the Section, presided over the meeting. The large-scale ocean transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to meet
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on February 15, 1980San Marcos Carrier Inc., Oakland, Calif., an affiliated company of the Oakland-based Domtar Gypsum America Inc., has announced that it has purchased the M/V Cabo San Lucas which, when converted, will be one of the world's largest oceangoing, self-unloading gypsum ore carriers. The ship is a
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on February 15, 1980Edwin D. Decker has been named vice president and general manager of Sperry Gyroscope, a unit of the Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation. Mr. Decker will succeed Robert L. Wendt, who was promoted to president of the division. Mr. Decker will be responsible for all activities of the unit,
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on February 15, 1980J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. of New Orleans, La., has completed tests on a new automatic marine pipeline welding system. McDermott reports the system, under development since 1976, will increase the speed and quality with which large diameter pipe can be welded aboard marine lay barges. The
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on February 15, 1980Four of six 297 V2-foot by 54- foot by 12-foot semi-integrated d o u b l e - s k i n tank barges being constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., for Hollywood Marine, Inc. of Houston, Texas, have been delivered. The barges, certified by the United States Coast Guar
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on February 15, 1980Authors William W. Rogalski and Eric A. Midboe, both of Gibbs & Cox, Inc., Wilbur G. Sherwood, National Science Foundation, and Feat Szeto, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, presented a paper titled "The State of the Art in Alternate Ocean Energy Systems" at the December meeting
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on February 15, 1980The Boston office of Parsons Brinckerhoff, the engineering, architectural, and planning firm, is currently at work on a project that will transform the west end of the Massachusetts Port Authority's Castle Island Terminal into a modern container terminal. This is a first step in significantl
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on February 15, 1980Robert L. Wendt has been named president of the Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation. Mr. Wendt will succeed Salvatore A. Conigliaro as head of the Great Neck, N.Y.-based division. Mr. Conigliaro will take a leave of absence for six months, and will return to the newly created post of chai
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on February 15, 1980Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, La., a subsidiary of Ogden Corporation, held christening ceremonies recently for the LASH vessel S/S Benjamin Harrison, the first of two LASH vessels currently being built for Waterman Steamship Corporation. Named for the distinguished member of the Co
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on February 1980Substantial equipment additions consisting of a new 3,500-ton drydock and large steel fabrication shop are now in use at National Marine Service's Hartford, 111., shipyard, D.A. Wright, president of the company, has announced. "The new facilities complement each other and permit the shipyard
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on February 1980The Acadian Marine group of companies based in New Orleans, La., has announced the signing of contracts valued at $18 million and its construction plans f o r several 350-foot "Clipper-Class" feeder containerships. The Acadian Group recently inked contracts for the charter of 10 of its ship
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on February 1980The De Laval Separator Company, well-known in the marine industry, will change its name to Alfa-Laval, Inc., and simultaneously move its corporate and industrial, food and dairy marketing headquarters to Ft. Lee, N.J., March 1, 1980. The name change, according to Kees Sonius, president, emp
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on February 1980The ARCO Alaska, a 188,500- dwt San Diego-class tanker built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., was recently received by Arch Tankers, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company. John M. Murphv, vice president for NASSCO Corporate Rela
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on February 1980The largest shiplift in the world recently began operations at the Tandanor, S.A., shipyard, Rio de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Syncrolift® shiplift platform is 185 meters long by 32 meters wide (about 607 feet by 105 feet), and has a lifting capacity of about 40,000 dwt. Complete
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on February 1980Sun Transport, Inc., a division of Sun International, Inc., has contracted with Mangone Shipbuilding Company for a 245-foot 6-inch ( 7 4 - m e t e r s ) vessel designed s p e c i f i c a l l y as a Twin Screw Motor Tank Barge to work in Sun's Northeast coastal operations. The new vessel is t
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on February 1980The annual m e e t i n g of the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at Schrafft's Restaurant in the Quality Inn Colony 7 to elect officers for 1979-80 and to hear the paper entitled "Planning and Scheduling Hull Production Operations." The aut
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on February 1980MTU of North America, Inc., a subsidiary of MTU Friedrichshafen West Germany, and distributor of high-performance diesel engines, officially opened its corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas, recently with a second facility in Morgan City, La. MTU of North America is an extension of MTU's
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on February 1980Am-Can Transportation, Inc. recently announced the introduction of a new tug-barge service to Great Lakes shippers. With the tug-barge, Am-Can will provide service to both line haul and to side port shippers, concentrating on fast, reliable service to small shippers presently operating from re