Medium 1981 Articles
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on May 15, 1981Built by Hitachi Zosen for the National Power Corporation (NPC) of the Philippines, two power plant barges — Napocor Power Barge 1 and 2 (shown above)—were completed recently at the Osaka Works (Sakai), and are the first such facilities to be constructed by Hitachi. Upon arrival at Naga on
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on May 15, 1981Thomas V. Van Dawark, vice president and general manager of Foss Alaska Line, Seattle, Wash., has been named president, Dillingham Maritime-Ocean Transportation Services Division. The announcement was made by David B. Ballash, Dillingham group vice president-maritime. The Ocean T r a n s p
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on May 15, 1981According to Sigurd Nilsen, president of Bailey Refrigeration, the firm's highly successful Miami branch has been reorganized as a separate company within the Bailey group of companies. "The growth of cruise activity out of south Florida has been phenomenal," says Mr. Nilsen, explaining the
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on May 15, 1981The Corps of Engineers Marine Design Center in Philadelphia has c o n t r a c t e d with the Jacksonville, Fla., naval architectural firm of Norman N. De- Jong & Associates, Inc. for the design of a new series of twinscrew tugs. DeJong specializes in tugboat designs. The firm has designed t
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on May 15, 1981Global Marine Development Inc. of Irvine, Calif., and Nippon Kokan K.K. of Tokyo, Japan, have announced an agreement to jointly develop and market offshore oil and gas production systems. NKK will fabricate the structures in its shipyards on the basis of engineering provided by GMDI. Global
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on May 15, 1981The Delaware Valley Chapter of The American Society of Naval Engineers met recently at the Philadelphia Naval Base Officers Club. Following a social hour and dinner, chairman Eugene Weinert called the meeting to order. After a brief business meeting Mr. Weinert introduced the coordinator, H
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on May 1981Downtime was cut by half when dockside repairs on the jackup drilling rig Salenergy V (shown above) were completed by Industrial Marine Services in Cameron, La. The interval between the rig's arrival at Industrial Marine and the day the work was completed on schedule was approximately half th
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on May 1981A method of reclaiming more than 3y2 million gallons of waste fuel and oil from ships being overhauled at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard has brought Matthew H. Monette of Portsmouth, Va., the shipyard's Naval Civilian Administrators Association Productivity Award for the last quarter of 1980. Mor
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on May 1981The export of coal from the United States, hampered today by limited port facilities, will get a boost from a significant new facility slated for the Port of Albany, N.Y. New Amsterdam Coal, Inc. of Dallas has announced plans to open the new facility in Albany by the fall of 1981. With an im
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on May 1981Charles M. Aker, vice president and general manager of Omnithruster Inc., has announced the signing of a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e 's agreement with Manotherm B.V. to cover the Benelux countries, and act as service agents in many chief seaports of the world. An a f f i l i a t e d company
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on May 1981Fabricating and transferring of ships and drill rigs using special Hydranautics hydraulic systems equipment has begun at Rauma Repola's Mantyluoto yard in Pori, Finland. The equipment permits ships of 8,500 tons steel weight to be constructed on land in sections, then assembled and moved onto
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on May 1981Few applications have more demanding and at the same time sensitive material requirements than those encountered in downhole petroleum exploration. However, many manufacturers are finding Armco Nitronic 50 stainless steel to offer the type of properties needed for dependable downhole servic
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on May 1981Wendle W. Huddleston, president and chief executive officer of Hudson S h i p b u i l d e r s , Inc. (HUDSHIP), announced that the company had acquired additional property for a major expansion of its shipbuilding operation. The new property is located on the west bank of the East Pascagoula
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on May 1981Construction of the Ocean Environment Basin (shown above) in Trondheim, Norway is nearing completion. Total building expenditures for the basin, which has been under construction for more than two years, will amount to approximately $25 million. By means of this basin, the research consortium
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on May 1981National Supply Company, Houston-based oilfield equipment firm, has named David A. Higbee and John C. Marchiando to new managerial responsibilities in the National Drilling Equipment Division. Mr. Higbee is promoted to general manager-manufacturing. He will be accountable for the company's pl
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on May 1981The First International Marine Technology Exhibition will be sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and held in conjunction with its 90th Annual Meeting on November 18-20, 1982, at The New York Hilton Hotel. This precedent- setting announcement was made by John J. N
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on May 1981Designed for efficient purification of diesel fuel and lubricating oils, two types of Westfalia oilpurifying centrifuges — OSA 7 (automatic type) and the OTB 2 (take-down type)—are representative of the range of Westfalia oil purifiers available for use on service vessels and in offshore pl
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on May 1981MARINOX 1, an on-site, ondemand oxygen generator that eliminates the need for pressurized oxygen cylinders, is now available from' XORBOX, Division of Greene & Kellogg, Inc., Tonawanda, N.Y. Contained in a s t u r d y , salt corrosion-resistant and watertight unit, MARINOX 1 is said to be i
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on May 1981At a recent meeting of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers aboard the Princess Louise, the evening's paper titled "The Combined Effect of Vertical and Horizontal Lineshaft Alignment on Main Reduction Gear" was authored and presented b
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on May 1981Expanding demand for grain movement from Idaho, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington prompted the a c q u i s i t i o n by Shaver Transportation Company of its 13th vessel, the Cascades (shown above). The big towboat recently began service between Lewiston, Idaho, and Portland, Ore., a c c